Some three strikes data

1^st strikers

• 55% of 1^st strikers were sentenced to less than 2 years imprisonment (or no imprisonment)
• 20% of 1^st strikers were sentenced to 2 – 3 years imprisonment
• 25% of 1^st strikers were sentenced to more than 3 years imprisonment

2^nd strikers

• 31% of 2^nd strikers were sentenced to less than 2 years imprisonment (or no imprisonment)
• 22% of 2^nd strikers were sentenced to 2 – 3 years imprisonment
• 47% of 2^nd strikers were sentenced to more than 3 years imprisonment

This data comes from someone who has OIAd this data.

The Government’s proposed new law will see 55% of violent or sexual offenders not get a first strike and 31% of what would have been second strikers not get a second strike.

Arguably it could even see 75% of first strikers and 53% of second strikers avoid strikes as Judges who give a sentence of just over two years would probably reduce it to avoid having to give a strike.

The proposed new law is not adequate. We need to demand a stronger law, not a symbolic law.