Another huge cost is the appeals process. There are three different appeals processes that a death row inmate can follow, and they usually all involve money. These appeals can take months or even years, and while they are pending, legal representation is still paid for by taxpayer dollars. A report from the California Fair Administration of Justice Commission stated that "the additional cost of holding an inmate on death row, compared to maximum security prisons where lifers without the possibility of parole usually serve their sentence, costs $90,000 per year per inmate.94 With California's current death row population of 670, this amounts to $63.3 million per year. Reducing three strikes laws is a legal system that many states have adapted that specifies that if a person commits three crimes, they are automatically sentenced to life in prison (Quotation 19). Although it varies from state to state, 28 states currently have the three-strikes law in place. The problem is that all three crimes don't have to be violent. For example, someone who stole a criminally large amount of property, falsified government documents, and was caught in possession of a large amount of drugs could be sentenced to life in prison for their three separate crimes ("Three Keystrokes"). Although this law was created to keep people who truly deserve to spend their lives in prison, it often affects other non-violent criminals who have made poor decisions. The statistics are also staggering. Currently, of all people incarcerated under the three strikes law, less than half are incarcerated for violent crimes (“Three Strikes”). America needs to seriously reevaluate its three strikes law. This provision does not necessarily need to be completely removed from the law, as it has its place for certain offenders. Yet it needs to be heavily modified so that it can free up more cells for people who really deserve to be freed up..