The Importance Of Parole In Prisons

Prisoners serving life sentences for first degree murder should not receive parole hearings after fifteen years since they have not served an appropriate amount of time for the crime, the victims’ family deserves justice and closure, and criminals who are released on parole pose a huge threat on the community. Criminals serving life sentences for first degree murder have been convicted of unlawfully killing that is willful and premeditated. In other words, the murder was immoral and planned out. Most of the time the murderer knows the victim personally, which means they know the victims’ family and workplace. So after the murder has occurred, it really surprises the family knowing who intentionally killed their loved one, which really takes a toll on them.

Prisoners should not be eligible for parole after only serving fifteen years due to the fact that they will repeat crime, and be re-entered into the prison system. In other words I mean that there is a higher chance a prisoner will go back into the jail

system, than he or she would to get a job and stay out of the systems. According to Alex Kingsburg in The Ex-Con Next Door, “more than two-thirds (68 percent) ended up back behind bars within three years of being released”. Prisoners do not deserve to be released because, prisoners being released would not be of benefit to anyone. The number of prisoners being re-entered into the prison systems is too high and there is no logical reason for it to go any higher, and that is what would happen if they get released.
First degree murder victims, as well as their families and loved ones deserve justice and closure.

Therefore, criminals should not be eligible for parole at all. The amount of pain the victims’ family and loved one feel is extreme, and nobody should have to go through that amount of pain. The family and loved ones do not get to say goodbye and do not get to have peace with the victim. New York Amsterdam News’ Saeed Shabazz mentions that the Smith family said “we do not want anyone else to suffer the pain of losing a loved one to violence” (p. 3) Families of the victims deal with a lot of pain and trauma, especially when they do not get to say goodbye. Criminals do not have to deal with even half of the amount of torture that the victims’ family feels. They need to serve the life sentence because they took an innocent life away and they need to pay for it. There is no reason for the criminal to be released since the victim are not able to get their lives

back.
Criminals should not be eligible for parole since they pose a massive threat for the rest in the community. In USA Today, it stated that “not only are states releasing prisoners in a rush, their watching released prisoners less closely once their out” (p. 1). In other words, prisoners can basically do what they want since they are not being observed as well as they should be. Prisoners who are released earlier than they are supposed to do not serve a suitable amount of time in prison. Which means that they are not able to fully learn from their mistake. Fifteen years is not enough time to realize that the crime committed was immoral and caused a countless amount of suffering for others. Releasing prisoners who have been convicted of first-degree murder will only produce one thing, a revolving door. By this I mean that the prisoner has not learned his or her lesson and will either one: commit the same crime, or two: commit one even worse. The criminals do not deserve any type opportunity to commit another crime, and that is exactly what they will do as soon as they get released on parole.
Prisoners serving life sentences should not be eligible for parole. They have committed a very cruel crime that has cause other a great deal of pain and suffering. They are criminals, and that will not change. This means that once a criminal is release, there is a high chance that the crime they have committed will most likely reoccur. More than two-thirds of criminals are entered back into the systems within three years of being released. Plenty of people have suffered for the criminals’ actions, particularly the victims’ family. They have to deal with funeral and burial arrangement. Topping it off, the families and loved ones have to transition into living a life without their loved one, which is probably the hardest thing to do. The families and loved ones deserve to have that little peace of mind, knowing that the person who wrongfully murdered their loved one is behind bars, thinking about what he or she did, for the rest of his or her life. States do not realize that the more they release criminals, the more crimes are committed. It’s set into the criminals mind, they can do what they want and just get a slap on the hand, like serving only fifteen years. There is a tremendously high chance that criminals who have been unconfined early will be re-incarcerated. The state should not give the criminals that chance.