I think their backgrounds really need to be looked at. If they keep having their paroles revoked and if they keep committing crimes while on parole and while they're in prison, it's obvious that they haven't changed. They're not changing. They don't deserve parole. You can only give someone so many chances. For someone who's been in and out of prison since 1970, as this offender was, I don't think you can rehabilitate them. I think he chooses crime and that's his choice. We, as victims and as the public, shouldn't have to suffer for it.
I think the Parole Board just kind of looks at as if, since they've been in there for this long, it has to continue giving them parole hearings. Even in this case there's not going to be a parole hearing, even though he just escaped and he was gone for three weeks. No one knew where he was. For three weeks he escaped custody. We don't even know what the warrant was for. We don't know what he did wrong.
It's difficult knowing that this decision is going to be made without any input from the victims.