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The Three-Strikes Law Works

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John Carlson

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently ran a long article criticizing Washington's "Three Strikes, You're Out" law because African Americans are a much smaller percentage of the state population than the proportion of those who "strike out." George Bridges, a University of Washington sociologist, called the data "very disturbing" and claimed "that minorities, particularly blacks, are overrepresented."

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