Lock up a thirteen year old with murderers, rapists and robbers, and guess he"ll want to be when he grows up? ... The children imprisoned get beaten and raped. ... Studies have shown that victims of rape and sexual assault are more likely to exhibit aggression especially towards women and children. ... Society is saying it"ll be a safer world if they are all offenders were locked up paying adult time for adult crime. ... Locking these kids up is just teaching them that society doesn't care what happens to them, just as long as we can feel safe. ...

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Three Strike Law "Three strike and you"re out," law generally prescribe that felons found guilty of a third serious crime to be locked up for 25 years to life. ... It is about the third felonies, its must be violent crimes such as murder, rape, and assaults causing great bodily injury. ... The intent of the three strikes law is to lock up repeat offenders longer, and that requires the construction and operation of more prisons. ... They came up with a proposition 98 locked into the state constitution a minimum level of spending on K-12 education that is expected to increase dramatically...

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The criminal justice system should not be blamed for the increase in the rate of crimes or the number of offenders being locked up, because social vices like poverty, bad economy, and unemployment are responsible for the increase in the crime rate and numbers of offenders being locked up. The issue of rape in prison, pointed out in second to the last paragraph to justify the author's opinion about the problem with the correctional system was something that has been tackled long time ago. Programs like PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) established in 2003 to deal with sexual assault of p...

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What is worse is the problem (as mentioned earlier) about juveniles falling under the same three-strikes law, among the juvenile offenses which could be punishable by 25-to-life sentences are the obvious ones, some may be considered borderline: "murder, kidnapping, rape, assault, even discharge if a firearm into an inhabited or occupied building, carjacking, escape from a juvenile detention center, even selling as little as one-half ounce of a controlled substance." ...

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