These criminals have had chances and used them up, just think of all the lives and money that will be saved by keeping these repeat offenders in jail rather than letting them go to rape and pillage the state then go through the court system again. To save money we could send them to private prisons in China. I think pol's and crooked cops should be sent to long term prison sentences also.

If Leroy Singleton wasn't given 3 (and more) chances, my brother Jimmy would be alive today. There are too many good people out there. The bad guys need to be put away. The three strikes bill makes sense. Actually I think one strike and you're out is a better idea.

This is the start of a trip to a California-style three strikes law. Terrible Terri and Boopsy Bobby need to haul back their eagerness and work to sharply restrict application of any three st strikes law in this state. Proponents claim that critics are wrong in comments about overcrowded and overly expensive prisons. Yet, there certainly will be a need for more walled and celled institutions if courts start sending more than capitol crime convictees to incarceration for life without parole. There hasn't been much written or broadcast about it, but I sure would like to know what Massachusetts is doing about employing "supermax" faciltieis. This whole topic needs considerable consideration rather than letting Baddur, DeLeo and Murray take the easy way out with a three-strikes law.

Where is the One-Strike bill instead??!?!

First of all, it would be nice if the Globe either posted the bill, or at least gave a good outline/synopsis of what it actually contains. I believe in second chances. I believe that some people can change. But, when someone is given a second chance or break and they fail to appreciate it and straighten out, there is a problem and it should not be mine. If any person, of any race or social status cannot abide by the laws of the Commonwealth, and live among us without preying on their fellow humans, they should not be allowed to be free. Therefore, if you are convicted of two separate felonies you obviously did not learn anything from the first conviction. So, you commit a third one, you should not be allowed to live in a free society. And that includes drug dealers who prey on our young.

This is feel-good legislation that's wrong headed. We already have life without parole for murder, but adding this expansion will add to the cost of the prison system and will probably have other unforeseen consequences. The money it will cost could be better spent hiring more police and providing more rehab services.