Prisoners know otherwise.
PNS commentator Jed Miller is a third-striker serving three concurrent life sentences for auto theft and bicycle theft at Pelican Bay Prison in Crescent City. In March of 1994, I was convicted of stealing a car and two bicycles. The public may think the law applies only to the most dangerous offenders, but inmates know otherwise. We're the lepers of the prison community. Timmy's two prior strikes were both for assault and battery.