So for me, I look at this type of legislation around evidence; around my own lived experience, but also around evidence. What we know is that the three-strikes legislation does nothing to deter people from committing crime. It does nothing to reduce the prison population. It does nothing to limit the impact of crime on victims. It achieves none of those things. It just achieves a meme, a sound bite, a short news story where people can feel good about themselves and beat their chests, that "Here we are, we're doing something. We're being tough on crime."