FACTS: Families to Amend California's Three Strikes

Get Involved in the Campaign to Amend Three Strikes!

  • Contact your local FACTS chapter to find out how you can help in your area
  • Support us by purchasing T-Shirts, cookbooks and more from our store
  • Action Steps For Individuals
  • Action Steps for Prisoners and Their Families
  • Action Steps for Organizations
  • Organizations who endorse changing California's 3 Strikes law

SB 1642 was 5 votes short of passage. It needed 21 votes to pass and there were only 16 senators willing to give it a Yes vote. Some suggested amending it, but Senator Romero would not agree to the changes. The following Senators are some of those who voted no.

Elaine Alquist
Debra Bowen
Denise Ducheny
Joe Dunn
Suarez
Mike Machado
Deborah Ortiz

As we have done throughout the years, FACTS will regroup and work towards victory in 2008!

FACTS' leader, Leon Shirley Passed Away

Our brother, friend, member and street warrior, Leon Shirley passed away on Friday, May 19, 2006. Leon provided us with a model of strength of purpose and undying perserverence. Many will remember Leon for his work during the Prop 66 campaign, for the strong statement he made in Lisa Scott's film Under Three Strikes, and for his weekly presence on street corners in Watts and South LA (if Leon worked 6 days a week, he would be out on the 7th day passing out FACTS' flyers). All who knew him will sorely miss his leadership and his courage. We have lost a true warrior.

FACTS is setting up The Leon Shirley Memorial and we encourage your participation. We ask only for your commitment to carry on our fight, Leon's fight to end this brutal Three Strikes Law. Our pledge to intensify the work to free not only Gaylon Shirley but all nonviolent Strikers and to eventually free our state from the barbarity of the Three Strikes Law is what Leon has always asked of us. In making that pledge, we will honor the memory and legacy of this great man


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