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To: elmatador who wrote (60595)	2/25/2005 2:15:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

<California's jails now house 163,000 prisoners (each at an annual cost of $31,000); > Wow ElM, that's $5,000,000,000 a year. Brazil could offer to do the job for $2 billion, which would still leave transport costs covered [they could travel to Brazil in prison ships, leased from a cattle or sheep carrier as required]. The USA could use the savings to catch a whole lot more and deliver more to your tender care. <California's “correctional facilities” singularly fail to correct: three in four prisoners will be convicted of another crime within three years—and three out of five will be back in prison. (Nationally, a quarter are back in prison for new crimes and another quarter are back in prison for parole violations.)> See, it would be continuing business too. As soon as they are let out, they are back into crime. They don't learn. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (60595)	2/26/2005 12:52:42 AM
From: energyplay	Respond to of 74559

The 'infamous' three strikes law actually has worked very well. Most of the people who supposedly were hit for minor offenses that qualify for a third stirke turn out to have more serious expenses. The average three strikes criminal has committed many more offenses than they have been charged with. They have been charged with more than they have been convicted, and with plea barganing, many charges reduced to misdemeanors, which don't count towards the three strikes. Criminal acts follow the 80/20 (Pareto) rule - a small group commits a wildly disproportinate number of crimes, and more severe crimes. Three strikes has gotten many for the very worst criminals off the streets.