Van Houten Parole Turn Down Mocks The Preachment of Rehabilitation

Let's be clear. The only way Leslie Van Houten would ever set foot outside of a prison is in a pine box. She has been denied parole more than a dozen times, and now add one more denial to that. The latest decision to deny her parole could have been mailed in. But having said that, the real issue is not whether Van Houten or any other heinous killer that society near universally agrees must never see the light of outside, should go free.

The issue that transcends the nature of the crime and the criminal that commits it is does keeping the Van Houtens behind bars in perpetuity when all agree they're no threat, and have done everything humanly and beyond possible to change their lives mock the notion that society still pays empty lip service to, namely rehabilitation?
From cradle to grave, the preachment on prisoners is study, grow, change your life, help humanity, and pay your debt to society, and thereby earn a second chance. At least that's the story line on crime and punishment. Of course, that's baloney. As a society, we are vengeful, vindictive, and ruthless when it comes to prisoners no matter how much they may come to resemble a cross between Mother Teresa and St. Paul in their prison lives. If they commit a crime they're all Les Miserables, Jean Valjean. Condemn them all to eternal hell fire and damnation.

That's the lot of Van Houten, model prisoner or no. So I say stop the sanctimonious pretense that we give a hoot about prison rehabilitation, and second chances, and prison life epiphanies. Just go along with the pack and scream hang em' high, and hang em' long when the name of prisoners like Leslie Van Houten is mentioned. That's the cheap, easy, and hypocritical way out.