Witnesses told the court that at the Valentine’s Day/birthday party, Zetina told Alvarenga: “I told you not to hit my sister. I’m going to kill you.” While Zetina’s protectiveness over his sister is admirable, killing her husband was probably an overreaction, especially when reports say that he shot Alvarenga five times, and once at point-blank range.
The panel rejected Zetina’s parole application because of “his violent history, the circumstances of the slaying, his lack of insight into his criminality and because of recent rules violations in prison”, among other reasons, according to the Orange County Register.
Clearly the prison system is not working, if Zetina has not found some “insight into his criminality” and is still violating rules in prison. Prisons are filling up at an alarming rate as our education system is choked by lack of funding. Are the two linked? What do you think? Do you think that our education system is failing due to budget cuts and therfore creating more crime? Do you think that our prisons are doing enough to rehabilitate inmates? Or do you think that no criminal has the potential to reform?
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