> From what I've read and heard, one of the biggest contributions to prison population growth has been the advent of the predicate felony ("three-strikes") laws

> From what I've read and heard, one of the biggest contributions to prison population growth has been the advent of the predicate felony ("three-strikes") laws in recent decades. Actually, three-strikes laws and the like aren't new, they're returning. They were abolished in the 60s.