Resolution of Organization to Assist in the
Efforts to Amend California’s Three Strikes Law
Whereas the State of California has legislated and initiated a Three Strikes law which allows nonviolent and non-serious offenders to receive 25 years-to-life sentences or greater in prison;
Whereas such sentences are cruel and unjust, upheld primarily against the poor and minorities, substantively constitute a violation of double jeopardy, and, when used retroactively, substantively an ex post facto law;
Whereas such sentences are increasing the State of California’s tax burden by billions of dollars to a growing prison industrial complex when spending in other areas such as education are in desperate need of increased funding and such sentences are of the most violent, undignified and least effective means of handling nonviolent and non-serious offenders (especially those afflicted with drug and alcohol addictions);
Therefore, be it here resolved that our organization will assist in the efforts to amend California’s Three Strikes law so it is not applicable to nonviolent or non-serious offenses;
And, therefore, be it ultimately resolved that our organization supports legislation or an initiative, which seeks to amend California’s Three Strikes law so it is not applicable to nonviolent or non-serious offenses.
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