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I wholeheartedly disagree. People can change and people do change. People can receive therapy. I was a very different person 5 years ago. I can't imagine how I will change in the next 20.

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People can change but mostly the don't. If someone let you down 5 years ago they will, most likely, let you down again.

With a 40% reconviction rate after prisoners are released [1], I think it's reasonable to assume a lot of them will keep misbehaving.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6743246/

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