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Ryan Bridge: Wouldn't we all be better off if the violent repeat offender was in jail? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Three strikes update for you. This morning, Nicole McKee's put
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  Speaker 1: out a statement. The government's basically lowering the threshold you
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  Speaker 1: have to meet in order to be hit with the
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  Speaker 1: new three strikes law. Originally, for the law to kick in,
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  Speaker 1: for you to get a strike, you had to commit
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  Speaker 1: a crime with a prison sentence of twenty four months
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  Speaker 1: or more, and it was the same for each of
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  Speaker 1: the three strikes strike one, two, and three. Now it's
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  Speaker 1: being lowered to just twelve months for the first offense.
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  Speaker 1: So basically more criminals will be captured by the first strike,
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  Speaker 1: and if they go on to commit more serious crimes,
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  Speaker 1: it could mean they're locked up for good or there's
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  Speaker 1: an increase in their minimum sentence. It's taking away the
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  Speaker 1: power from the judges and the discretion that they have.
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  Speaker 1: They say the law doesn't work, this three strikes law,
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  Speaker 1: because we have had it before. It's not proven to
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  Speaker 1: reduce offending or reoffending. It's not right, it doesn't rehabilitate criminals.
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  Speaker 1: And yet somehow I don't mind it. If you can't
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  Speaker 1: sort yourself out after warnings one and two, then why
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  Speaker 1: would you miraculously stop offending after the third warning? You
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  Speaker 1: probably wouldn't so wouldn't we all be better off if
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  Speaker 1: that serious, violent, repeat offender was rather than living next
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  Speaker 1: door to you in jail. For more from Early Edition
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