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Does The Punishment Fit The Crime' Does The Punishment Fit the Crime Over twenty-seven years ago, a man was convicted of robbery. Just recently he began serving twenty-five years to life for having in his possession a forged license. Grandfather of four, Ronnie Villa, also serving a sentence of twenty-five years to life for stealing bottles of shampoo, had prior strikes over a decade ago. These are incidents of victims caught by the third strike law created and enforced by the California Department of Corrections. (Braz) Less then half of the more then four thousand third strike prisoners in the state of California were convicted for crimes other then those against persons. Though California isn’t the only state that has the three strikes law, it is the only state where it is not working. Statistics have shown that in states without the three-strike law, violent and serious crimes fell at a much faster rate then the states with the law. This shows that California needs to improve the existing law into a more effective way of ruling. (Braz, LAO) Punishment for crimes has to be thought out and fair to everyone. Punishment for minor crimes shouldn’t be the same for major and serious law, strikes, third, three, strike, punishment, serious, crimes, should, justice, criminal, crime, cases, years, one, life, convicted, theft, possession, out, offense, money, four, fit, against, you’re, trial, stealing, state, significant, serving, sentence, robbery, prison, offenses