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There it is. It's to save money. It is putting society at risk to save money.
It's because their sentence does not require imprisonment. If it did it would be Life without parole. Because it is not, their sentence allows for supervised freedom after a period of time in prison. That's about the long and short of it.
There is no other real reason than the one above, the stuff we talked about were benefits that society gets out of acting this way on those sentences. Your only understanding seems to be in the mercenary area. You may still dislike it because you believe that prison is for punishment, not rehabilitation, but it is what it is. The sentence simply does not require lifetime imprisonment like the sentence "Life without Parole" does.
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