Interesting. At first I thought banning parole makes sense (instead of max sentence + parole give a reasonable term) but apparently the reason is people stopped

Interesting. At first I thought banning parole makes sense (instead of max sentence + parole give a reasonable term) but apparently the reason is people stopped believing criminals can be rehabilitated via prison: > Americans became more concerned with ensuring that people were punished – often severely – and began to doubt that prison could rehabilitate a person. The SRA rejected rehabilitation as the primary goal of our sentencing system. Instead, it stated that the purpose of imprisonment is punishment.