The board's feeling is that three-strikes is a great law if used appropriately, and this measure to change it is not necessary.

The change in the law opened up a whole new piece of the market.

When you're saddled with the fact that it's not low-level offenders and there's no accountability, it's doomed for failure.

The initiative is a severe limitation of the number of crimes that can be considered for a life sentence. It involves the release of thousands of felons that juries, judges and prosecutors ... have decided ... should serve their sentences. We would hope that the people would pay attention to our vote.

Right now, we have a system with no accountability. A judge can order someone to treatment, and they can do whatever they want. To have a system where so few people show up is shocking.

It is not good enough that a measure of this magnitude is signed into law while the government department responsible adopts a policy of silence and allows panic and confusion to run rampant.