Posted: Oct 02, 2014 2:38 pm
Sendraks wrote:Fallible wrote:Again, you're just assuming that giving someone the possibility of parole is the same as inevitably letting them out of jail at some point.
I think that perhaps part of the problem that Lak and Coastal are getting at, is about a lack of confidence in the parole system in determining with any sort of accuracy whether someone is suitable for parole. I agree that this is a definite weakness in the system where little or no rehabilitation takes place.
But then, why have any sort of system of parole if you're not actually going to do anything meaningful to rehabilitate someone?
It makes no sense and instead you get prisoners being taught, by other prisoners, how to get round a parole board. Amazing how many prisoners, in the US at least, seem to "find God" in prison and that becomes a tool for securing parole. Which goes to show how fucked up parole boards can be.
Yeah - and that would be an argument for a better system. Certainly in my view it falls some way short of being a point in favour of life without parole (or CP).