e.u. canada and mexico california is considering the eventual release of thousands of men mates serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes the inmates were sentenced under the three strikes you're out law passed in the early one nine hundred ninety s. to keep repeat offenders behind bars they strike sentences were triggered by one serious crime conviction and two other convictions and admit four years ago revised the law by redefining some felony crimes and making them not count as a strike a second ballot measure approved two years ago will allow inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes to be eligible for parole robin also has the latest from los angeles. three strikes and you're out is a term taken from the american sport of baseball but in this context what it means is any person who committed two felonies and then was found guilty of a third no matter what that might be would be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole now many people caught up in this were nonviolent offenders people who stole or shoplifted some goods from a store or were caught with a very small amount of narcotics nevertheless they were put

e.u. canada and mexico. california's considering the eventual release of thousands of men mates serving life sentences for nonviolent crimes the inmates were sentenced under the three strikes you're out law passed in the early one nine hundred ninety s. to keep repeat offenders behind bars a strike sentences were triggered by one serious crime conviction in two other convictions and admit four years ago it's a law by redefining some felony crimes and making them not count as a strike a second ballot measure approved two years ago will allow inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes to be eligible for parole in also has the latest from los angeles three strikes and you're out is a term taken from the american sport of baseball but in this context what it means is any person who committed two felonies and then was found guilty of a third no matter what that might be would be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole now many people caught up in this were nonviolent offenders people who stole or shoplifted some goods from a store or were caught with a very small amount of narcotics nevertheless they were put in life with