> If someone does <insert pre-medidated, heinous thing>, do/should I support letting them automatically rejoin society in a maximum of 25 years? My understandi

> If someone does <insert pre-medidated, heinous thing>, do/should I support letting them automatically rejoin society in a maximum of 25 years? My understanding of places that don’t do life sentences is that at the end of the term the prisoner is re-evaluated to determine if it’s still in the best of interest of the society to keep them incarcerated or not. For example, in Norway I believe that the maximum sentence is 21 years with the possibility for extensions if they are still deemed a threat. While there are certainly people who likely do need to be separated from society forever, I don’t think everyone currently serving a life sentence necessarily falls into that category. My spouse has a relative serving a life sentence for a double murder when he was young, nearly 30 years ago. By all accounts he’s a very different person now and has been rehabilitated. But he’ll never get out, despite that and despite having a support network were he ever released. Does he, in particular, deserve freedom? I don’t actually know him well enough nor the details of his crime to say for myself, but it certainly seems like the US is keeping a lot of people locked up even when it might be better for society as a whole to reintegrate them as productive members.