Lefty friends now believe prisons are entirely black
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You can't really trust anyone who's been in prison for a violent crime. So unless you want life imprisonment for fist fights (and there are plenty of young men who are in a fist fight every other week for years on end), you have to accept that releasing any criminal carries a risk of another offense.
You can't trust anyone, period.
Every offender is a first time offender at one point.
Crime spreads like a virus. Sure there can always be random outbreaks but by and large it comes from known infectious agents allowed to exist freely in the body of society.
Correct.
All you can do is assess risk.
Letting an impulsive jackass with anger management issues back on to the streets is a risk. Letting that same impulsive jackass buy a gun is a bigger risk.
Maybe the guy you release breaks someone's jaw 4 years down the line.
Or maybe he shoots someone dead.
One of those risks is more acceptable than the other.