In the 1990s, a gruesome crime resulted in a backlash against the California justice system which spurred sentencing reform and the Three Strikes law. Today, it is not a concern over equity, but an expensive and overcrowded prison system that invites some to call for reforms.
On Oct. 1, 1993, young Polly Klaas had two of her friends at her home for a slumber party. In the course of the evening, she opened her bedroom door to fetch sleeping bags and encountered an intruder armed with a knife. He tied the girls up, and then kidnapped Klaas. A search ensued over the next two months — all in all, about 4,000 people helped search for her — until a parolee, Richard Allen Davis, was arrested on a parole violation on Nov. 30 of that same year.
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