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First Inmates Released After Three Strikes Reform

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It's been less than a month since voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 36, the measure which reforms California's three strikes law to require that third strikes be serious or violent felonies. It also allows some inmates serving 25 years to life for a non-violent, non-serious crimes to get their sentences reduced. Already, two inmates have won freedom after their sentences were reduced.

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