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"In September 1996, fifty-three-year-old heroin addict Billy Ochoa was sentenced to 326 years in prison. His crime: committing $2,100 worth of welfare fraud. Ochoa was sent to New Folsom supermax prison, joining thousands of other men who will spend the rest of their lives in California's teeming correctional facilities as a result of that state's tough Three Strikes law. His incarceration will cost over $20,000 a year until he dies.". "Hard Time Blues weaves together the story of the growth of the American prison system over the past quarter century primarily through the story of Ochoa, a…
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 2002Thomas Dunne Books · 320 pages · 9780312268114
- Other · English · 2011St. Martin's Press · 9781429970044
Administration of Criminal justiceSentences (Criminal procedure)ImprisonmentPolitical aspectsCriminal justice, administration ofCriminal procedure, united states