Originally Posted by GothicGothicness 
Well, sometimes I wounder if it is more humane to keep someone locked in there entire life?
Any system is subject to the individual - and we can never know what's impossible to know.
These things will invariably differ from one person to the next. Some might never need any incentive to rehabilitate themselves and others might not change regardless of the incentive.
We can never - ever - make a system that will be able to predict something like that.
I have my own idea of the way we should go about these things, but I'm pretty sure the world is not going to be ready for that in many hundreds of years.