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3 Strikes and You’re Out: After 20 Years, Is the Law Working? | Retro Report | The New York Times

After visiting the website video,” 3 Strikes and You’re Out: After 20 Years, Is the Law Working? | Retro Report | The New York Times ” in Youtube , allow these questions to direct your thoughts(around 200 words).

  • How appropriate was this site and its material to the understanding the historical beginnings of the three strike laws and its assessment twenty years later?
  • What part of the website/video interested you the most or least? And why?
  • Three strike laws were the result of very serious crimes against society and society’s emotional response to those events. Should the three strikes law be modified above and beyond what is stated in the video.
  • and also comment (100 words) on this post: The content of the video provided me with lots of useful information regarding the origins of the Three Strike Laws 20 years ago but also gave me a better understanding regarding the current view on these laws. It was really interesting to see how two tragic and very emotional crimes pushed society to demand stricter laws to punished repeat offenders and put a lot of pressure onto elected officials to enforce this new laws. This emotional and quick decision to modify the criminal law brought severe consequences to the repeat offenders and increased the cost of maintaining such high prison population. It was really interesting to see how elected officials gave up to the public pressure, approving and enforcing laws without analyzing the future implications of those. Personally, I was surprised to see that the debate regarding whether the correctional system should punish offender or help them become productive members of society has been an ongoing situation for over 2 decades without either side winning the discussion and no big improvements made to the correctional system over this time period.Three Strikes Laws definitely need some modifications, regarding what type of crimes should be consider eligible for longer sentences. In general, the criminal laws need to be reevaluated in order to provide more rehabilitation options, help lower the growing inmate population and reduce the overload of cases in many judicial districts.