THREE STRIKES... BUT NEVER OUT! is based on the true story of Author Chris Allen Pannell. Chris was taken from his parents at the age of five and placed in a shelter by the Department of Social Services for his safety from his abusive and alcoholic father. The system failed him. It allowed for him to be placed back in the custody of his father. Now at the age of 56, Chris is an inmate in the Virginia Prison System serving a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole, pursuant to Virginia Code 19.2 297.1. Also known as "Virginia Three-Strike" for a robbery committed on August 20, 2005. There were no weapons of any kind and no one was hurt, but because of Chris up bringing as a lost child, The Virginia legislature' claim that Chris will never change even in spite of all the tax payer funded programs intended for people like Chris and others. The legislatures creation of Virginia Three-Strike is another example of how the system has failed him. Chris story tells you and shows you how his life transitioned with the support of intense programing that the Department of Correction offered him today