The Three Strike Law - Essay Example

For example in the state of California, people who have committed nonserious crimes such as shoplifting and carjacking have even been sentenced under three strike laws (Samaha 376). Such acts by the state and the criminal justice system are unjust because these people do not pose a threat to society and assigning them a 25 to life sentence is unjust.

Secondly, due to such laws, the population of prisons is increasing which is negatively impacting the budgets of the criminal justice system which is already overburdened with the number of prisoners in jails. The way the three-strike law has been applied in the state of California is even quite unjust because California is assigning sentences, not on the nature of the crime, and is rather assigning sentences based on the number of crimes.