The Third Strike (2020)

The Third Strike (2020). The Third Strike: Directed by Nicole Jones. In the 1980's the war on drugs directly led to The Three-strikes Law. And for over 20 years it's been tearing families apart.

“In 1986 the anti-drug abuse act was passed by the U. S. congress which directly led to the three strikes law. This law which was also known as the anti crack cocaine law disproportionally affected poor, drug addicted people for minor NON violent drug possesion or drug dealing offences, for which they could get LIFE IN PRISON, if only they had 3 minor (non violent) convictions in a row.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis documentary shows several mindboggling examples of men being sent to prison for life, who hadnt done anything worse than having possesion of marihuana (weed), which is nowadays legal to grow, sell and posess in half of the states in America. Calls for releasing those who were imprisoned back then for these minor drug possesion offences are now mounting.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe so called u0026quot;War on Drugsu0026quot; in the eighties and nineties was inadvertently a war on our own friends and family members who were drug addicted or poor. Drug addiction is a disease, which needs to be treated by doctors, not criminalized by police force. Poverty needs to be alleviated by raising the minimum wage, not by giving LIFE IN PRISON to those poor folks, who do 3 petty NONVIOLENT offences in a row.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis documentary gives a face to a few out of many who are incarcerated for LIFE IN PRISON for only having committed 3 petty NONVIOLENT offences in a row, for which they would have gotten a small fine or a community service sentence in any other western country.”