Well, that’s just the way I think about it. One can make it life in prison, too (no parole, I’m talking about).
And it doesn’t have to be country-club living either... They do have super-max prisons where a person is isolated for 23 hours of the day, one hour out, and they never come into contact with any other prisoner or see another prisoner — but only the guards.
Life in prison without possibility of parole is exactly what I am 100% against. THere’s no reason to keep a person alive if they have no hope of ever being free.