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The felon in question was assigned a prison place, the key is there for him to pick-up or not.
Why he could not simply have been so sentenced without recourse to any justification; tasteless or bland, is the question. That he was out on license from a, presumably foreshortened, previous prison-term bodes-ill for the effectiveness of correction over social-environment so that he is either to be adjudged worthy of an opportunity to get himself together or considered lost to law abiding civil society and therefore a considerable on-going drain on public funds/source of continued profit (depending on your point of view).
If we were to consider this in the simplest of terms, cash terms, without recourse to any thoughts:human, humane, philosophical etc.. We can see that there is a general willingness to expend vast sums on a head-stone to bury alive such as he, and not so much as a thought to the ever-tightening purse strings which constrain (lamentably constrain) any and all effort to widen the possibilities for socio-economic advancement for such as he.
Imagine...
The occupiers of the 'middle-class' homes burgled are either out all day, themselves struggling, working in commerce to keep a roof over their heads, or in public service:health/social care etc. for much the same ends. Are these people best advised to put money aside for a cage, or a series of cages - Russian Doll style - , to keep themselves safe?
Just what or who is it that inflicts this hellish dichotomy upon hard working, law abiding citizens and their families? What or who profits by so-doing?