Sentenced for Three Strikes, Then Freed. Now Comes a Pushback.

Pablo Garcia walked out of a San Diego prison last week and went to the beach for the first time in 24 years, free of a life sentence for breaking into a car. He stopped for a hamburger, french fries and a milkshake at a Wendy’s before arriving at his re-entry program in downtown Los Angeles. Edwin Hutchison left San Quentin State Prison last month and boarded a nearly empty Amtrak train to Los Angeles. He had served 21 years before a judge…