The Third Strike (2020) User Reviews

The Repeat Offenders are What Break Up Families...

[jackkern-862-993699 · 1/10 · 13 May 2023]

The Repeat Offenders are What Breaks Up Families, and even Worse, they bring Harm and Grief to the Families of the Victims! I Care about the Victims First, not the Offenders.

It Sickens much of America to have to listen to people in Numerous documentaries make excuses for anyone who commits violent crimes based on their skin color! Enough!!! Crime knows no Race, it has been and always will be everywhere among human beings, but it must be dealt with via the Law and Not based on skin color or race.

Why are 50% of all violent crimes in the United States committed by a race that only represents 13% of the population? These are the questions that must be asked and the answers can Only come from within the community with a failed culture!

Life in prison for three petty nonviolent crimes in a row.

[imseeg · 8/10 · 16 May 2023]

In 1986 the anti-drug abuse act was passed by the U. S. congress which directly led to the three strikes law. This law which was also known as the anti crack cocaine law disproportionally affected poor, drug addicted people for minor NON violent drug possesion or drug dealing offences, for which they could get LIFE IN PRISON, if only they had 3 minor (non violent) convictions in a row.

This documentary shows several mindboggling examples of men being sent to prison for life, who hadnt done anything worse than having possesion of marihuana (weed), which is nowadays legal to grow, sell and posess in half of the states in America. Calls for releasing those who were imprisoned back then for these minor drug possesion offences are now mounting.

The so called "War on Drugs" in the eighties and nineties was inadvertently a war on our own friends and family members who were drug addicted or poor. Drug addiction is a disease, which needs to be treated by doctors, not criminalized by police force. Poverty needs to be alleviated by raising the minimum wage, not by giving LIFE IN PRISON to those poor folks, who do 3 petty NONVIOLENT offences in a row.

This documentary gives a face to a few out of many who are incarcerated for LIFE IN PRISON for only having committed 3 petty NONVIOLENT offences in a row, for which they would have gotten a small fine or a community service sentence in any other western country.