As long as a violent offender committed unrelated crimes on separate occasions, each counts as a "strike" under Pennsylvania's three-strikes law even if the offender's plea consolidated two or more of ...

The California State Supreme Court ruled this month that prisoners serving time under the state’s three strikes law can seek a reduction of their sentences. For years, the Three Strikes Project has ...

Colorado’s second-highest court concluded on Thursday that a defendant was sentenced under the state’s “three strikes” law in a manner that did not comply with the U.S. Constitution, but the mistake ...

The US Supreme Court today heard challenges to the toughest sentencing law in the nation. California-s landmark -Three Strikes- law, which is defended as part of the war on crime, has been attacked by ...

OPELOUSAS, La. (KLFY) — A Eunice man could face decades in prison following his conviction of several counts of theft from people’s cars, prosecutors said. Billy James Thomas, 49, of Eunice, was found ...

California’s three strikes law, approved by voters in 1994, mandates a sentence of 25 years to life for anyone convicted of a felony with at least two prior convictions. However, a state Supreme Court ...