wilson led efforts to enact "tough on crime" measures and signed into law the "three strikes" (25 years to life for repeat offenders) as a result of the three strikes law, 4,431 offenders have been sentenced to 25 years to life for strings of crime. the law required the construction of new prisons, leading some to question the role in his stance of the california correctional peace officers association, a lobbying group of prison guards that gave $1.47 million to wilson's gubernatorial campaigns.