Question comes as a kind of addition to one I asked awhile back. It was about having met a truly evil person. I can tell the story again if anyone is interested but as a young teen I interacted with a guy in the Aryan brotherhood from California several times.
You could serve a million years but if you don’t regret it (if what you did was morally wrong and you got locked up for good reasons, many people are not, sadly) then what “fresh start” is possible?
Maybe they just got abused by their parents so heavily they were pushed into this, and that’s understandable, but in other cases I don’t think that spending time locked up necessarily means you’re a different person who “deserves” a chance to have a normal life, it all depends on how you processed things.