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Originally Posted by blondboinsd
I fail to understand why repeat offenders are allowed to keep paroling, sometimes I feel they should be kept locked up where they cannot harm more qualified human beings
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Unfortunately you only get to read about cases like this. You don't get to read about the guy who was let out of prison and became a productive member of society.
I have a friend who was in prison twice as a teenager (the last time until he was 23) for burglary. Now he is in his 30s, and has not had any problems with the law since then. The last time he was in prison, he was required to take some kind of job training course, so he learned carpentry, and today he has a prett good job in construction. He knows he was a screwup when he was a kid, and he's very much changed since then.
It really depends on the prison system. Some of the prisons are so bad that people are worse off when they get released than when they first went in. On the other hand, some of the prisons properly prepare these people to go back into society with things like job training and education. The rate of repeat offenders is much lower for those facilities.