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The problem with that is. Most of the on parole and or early release felons, played the parole system, like a fiddle. They claim they found jesus, saw the light and "only want to return to society". Knowing they made a mistake and looking forward to getting back to their family and society.
The parole board looks at the over crowding, available funding etc and says. Why not take a change with this model prisoner.
6 months later, if that in some cases. They're in a line up accused of stabbing someone to death. or one of the many other bad habits, society pushed them to.
I'm the victim. I mean all i wanted was her wallet. But no, she fought back, so i stabbed her, 17 times.
That's not how our government has ever worked. Like it or not, BOR has never been a light switch and it's been legally "infringed" since day one. Idealistically, we can argue how we have sacred unalienable rights, pragmatically, our rights have constantly been under revision, edited etc from the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appellate. "Right" or wrong, that is our flawed system of government. Personally, I usually avoid ideological positions and deal with pragmatic reality to have the most effect in the course of my life.
And even if we go back to the original conventions, imagine if you stood up and said "If a man stabs all of his neighbors in a gathering, rapes their wives, and is sent to prison, would it not infringe on his right to a firearm to deny him a weapon from within prison?" Proponents of arguments like that might have kept us from even having a 2nd amendment, it was heated to begin with.... even the idealists see limitations despite the "shall not be infringed", such as "lets not arm prisoners, shall we?". Nowhere in the B.O.R. does it explicitly deny rights to prisoners either...
So yeah, "shall not infringe" has never meant every man woman and child without exception.
ETA: Also note our judicial system neither has the capacity nor has ever operated to segregate dangerous people from society. Again, that's an idealized belief, not reality. It's mostly catch and release, at best.