Regarding parole

Regarding parole The real question is, if you're never gonna parole people ... Even the likes of folks whose third strike was something that could've warranted merely county time for anyone else ... Why even have parole in the first place ? Isnt it simply to mollify lifers by creating a sense of false hope ? If so , its cruelty . Too many times I've seen an old man who just wants to live out the rest of his days in peace ... whose not a recidivist ... staring into space ruminating about the boards decisions. In my opinion, these peoples suffering is not being taken seriously, and their futures are bartered for political gain by people who know nothing of their daily lives in prison, or who they were before then. I don't have a horse in this race. I have a set date, thank god. But it's wrong to offer people false hope and then tell ourselves we are better as a society for it. We must either look those men in the eyes and tell them, " You will die there " ... keeping in mind they are mostly NOT cold blooded killers but people caught in a cycle of poverty, mental illness, and addiction who got crossed out by that misguided third strike rule ... or make good on our promise that those who no longer present a reasonable threat to others ( Or never did ! ) will be released before they stroke out and die with their faces planted in pool of slimy overcooked prison oatmeal as COs hamhandedly try to summon our pathetically understaffed medical dept.