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| In 1994 ... | |||
| Opponents of 3-Strikes made predictions and projections as to the effect and impact of the nation�s toughest crime law. | |||
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| 1. California prison population would double in 5 years, reaching 250,000. | |||
| 2. California would need to build 20 new prisons. | |||
| 3. Crime reductions would be minimal at best. | |||
| 4. More courts would be needed due to clogging by defendants taking their cases to trial. | |||
| 5. More deaths of police officers having to arrest more desperate criminals. | |||
| Now 10 years have passed and projections and predictions can be replaced with facts. |
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| 1. California prison population would double in 5 years, reaching 250,000. | |||
| California�s prison population 10 years after 3-Strikes has held at approximately 160,000 for the last 4 years, with an overall increase of 25.5%. | |||
| Ten years prior to 3-Strikes, California�s prison population expanded 400%. | |||
| 2. California would need to build 20 new prisons. | |||
| Ten years prior to 3-Strikes, California built 19 new prisons. Ten years after 3-Strikes, California has opened no new prisons. | |||
| 3. Crime reductions would be minimal at best. | |||
| California has seen the longest and greatest drop in crime in the last 10 years since such records have been kept. The most remarkable part of these side-by-side crime drops is that at the same time California increased its general population by 1/3, which is a total reversal of what was projected, since more population has historically always proportionately translated into more crime. | |||
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