Yes, but automatic permanency disallows that some can change, and are not slaves to predisposing factors. And the liberal mind would love to sentence political incorrectness according to alleged differences btwn liberals and conservatives (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/09/03/conservatives-and-liberals-have-different-brains-studies-show/#) . "Permanent" must fit the crime, with habitual offenders in less than capital crimes getting longer stretches.
ah! Yes, I am talking about capital and particularly heinous crimes.