Three strikes originated in California in the early 1990s without any kind of academic or policy foundation. It is yet another example that transplanting something from the other side of the world does not usually work in this country, and it often exacerbates the inequalities already faced by marginalised and vulnerable parts of our population. But before it was adopted here, multiple issues had already arisen in America because of this legislation. Quoting again from the JustSpeak submission, three-strikes legislation was identified as "an extreme example of populist pre-emption of criminal justice policy making". That was in 1996, 14 years before the Government of the day thought, "That sounds great. Let's bring it here."