Another huge cost is the appeals process. There are three different appeals processes that a death row inmate can undertake, and they usually use all of them with monetary costs. These appeals can take months or even years, and while appeals are ongoing, legal representation is still paid for with taxpayer money. A report by the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice states that: “The additional cost of incarcerating an inmate on death row, compared to maximum security prisons where those sentenced to life without the possibility of parole typically serve their sentences , is $90,000 per year per inmate.94 With California's current death row population of 670 people, this represents $63.3 million per year. Reducing the Three Strikes Law is a legal system that many states have adapted that specifies that if one commits three crimes he automatically receives a life sentence (Cite 19). While it varies from state to state, 28 states currently have three-strikes laws in place. The problem is that the three crimes do not have to be violent. For example, someone who may have stolen a quantity of property, falsified government documents, and been caught with a large quantity of drugs could face life in prison for their three separate crimes (“Three Strikes”). While this law was created to keep people locked up who truly deserve to spend their lives in prison, it often affects other nonviolent criminals who have made bad decisions. The statistics are also staggering. Currently, of all people indicted under the Three Strikes Law, less than half are convicted of violent crimes (“Three Strikes”). America needs to seriously reevaluate the three strikes law. It need not necessarily be removed from the law book entirely, as it finds room for some offenders. However it must be heavily modified to have the ability to free more cells for the people who really deserve it