Three Strikes and You're Out, revisited

Torture can take many forms. Like, for example, locking up some poor schlep for 19 years, or 31 years, or even LIFE, because he made the stupid-ass mistake of stealing a set of golf clubs, maybe on top of having done some real crimes - or some NOT SO REAL crimes, back in 1973, 1978, and lastly, in 2002. California has finally come to its senses, a bit, with respect to its notorious, cruel, sadistic, unfair, destructive "Three Strikes and You're Out" penalties, inflicted not just on the poor schleps who were consigned to a dungeon all these "get-tough-on-crime" years and decades, but upon us all, who may or may not come in contact with that law's shell-shocked victims. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/19/magazine/you-just-got-out-of-prison-now-what.html?_r=0