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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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