You basically just responding to the student post down below

Student paper down below:

The impact I feel about this type of legislation having on recidivism rates is too hard on most people. For one thing, the prisons in the United States are already overcrowded with prisoners who are re-offenders who were convicted for violent crimes and many for non- violent crimes Human knowledge has not focused on this enough to figure it out. It depends on the crime. How much treatment would these people receive? Does this include white-colored crimes? What if you have enough money to buy your way out? How do they make compensation for the crimes they have committed if they can’t get out and work? I work with the Department of Justice and the Department of Corrections and I see people who were in prison for drug crimes and were rehabilitated. One of my clients got out after 10 years in prison for three felonies for drug charges. Had he been in California, he would be in for life. Instead, after 5 years, he started thinking about what he had done. The only answer he had for the pain in his heart was self-medicating with drugs. His mother had committed suicide when he was very young and he found the body so he was grieving and was left with a grieving father who did not know how to raise him and his sister. He said she was a beautiful woman and did not want to grow old. She became more and more depressed until she couldn’t handle her own life. There are studies and arguments on both sides and some say it helps to reduce re-offending and some say it increases re-offending. As I see it, this law has contributed to both increases and decreases in recidivism rates. Having coping and job skills is important.

I believe that someone convicted of a misdemeanor for their third offense should not be subjected to life imprisonment under this legislationbecause a misdemeanor is considered less than a felony and is “measured by how much the crime affect others or society”. Again, it depends on the crime. One of the things that really irks me in Colorado is the 10 days in jail for a first or even second DUI plus getting a misdemeanor! In too many cases it costs the person their job. A misdemeanor applies to most DUI cases. In California, with the third offence being a misdemeanor, it would mean a person with the third one being a DUI, he/she would be in prison with a life sentence.

The data shows in evaluating the impact of "three strikes" legislation that about 65% of around 43,000 prisoners serving the second-and-third-strikes sentences had a conviction of non-violent, non-serious crimes according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). It also showed that crime was down in counties that didn’t use “three-strikes” as the ones that over used it. There are 319 California prisoners are serving 25 years to life for misdemeanor theft as 344 who would have served under the “strike three”.