The Importance Of Parole In Prisons

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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 …show more content…

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

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