Court backs power of career criminal law

This past Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote that Floridian, Alphonso James, was guilty of being a "career criminal". Based on the Armed Career Criminal Act, people with three prior criminal convictions that are either violent felonies or serious drug charges can be given longer prison sentences. In Florida, attempted burglary constitutes as something that would fall under the A.C.C.A. I believe that this is a necessary act because we need to keep these people off the streets. If someone has three serious drug charges, chances are either they have a serious drug problem, or they are a serious drug dealer. If someone has three violent felonies, they might have an anger problem and by keeping them in jail longer, the more problems are possibly avoided.