Three strikes you're out has got to go

Three strikes and you're out has got to go. Debby Irving, in her book "Waking Up White," spoke of a black classmate who had gone to Winchester schools with Debby. Her classmate said, "My mother trained us well. She told us, 'This is where the good schools are (Winchester), and if you want to make the most of it, you need to stay away from drugs.' You know what else she told us? 'White kids who do drugs go to college; black kids go to jail.'"
There are so many things to fix. Sending kids to jail for drugs. Sending one race of kids but not another race. Some things we may never fix. But we can make one small fix in our lousy prison system and that is get away from "three strikes you're out". It is a racist policy.