I've read that recidivism rates are substantial. - sano

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Could that be related to slap on the wrist type punishment or no punishment at all, or no cash bail for new cries perpetrated by someone with ten or twenty priors?

Seriously, if it was well known and a certainty that your eleventh felony was a minimum twenty year sentence, you don't think that would produce a drop in recidivism. I will grant you, it may not stop a perp from committing felony number 11, but you won't see number 12 by him for twenty years. That alone would save a lot of victims from experiencing the crimes he otherwise would continue to commit.
You apparently feel sorry or sympathy for the hapless felon. I do too, up to a point, but after ten, I think you loose your right to be out, preying on the law abiding.

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