What is the 3 strike law?

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Three strikes laws, more formally known as habitual offender laws, are statutes enacted by state governments in the United States (26 as of November 2007), as well as by the federal government, which require a mandatory extended prison sentence (usually life, with no paroll typically for at least 25 years) to persons who have been convicted of a felony on three or more separate occasions.

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