A quick review of your posts on this thread makes me wonder if you have something you would like to share with the group.
As to whether I believe in people changing, I don't see where any part of my post precludes the possibility of change. To the contrary, I pointed out specific changes that are required to enhance success: don't return to the crowd you used to run with, stay off drugs, improve language skills. Further, I have supported prison ministries that address the real change that brings people back to a better life, a relationship with a living God through His Son.
Finally, the other point of my post is that choices have consequences, sometimes far beyond the courtroom and the jail cell. As in the licensed trades not being open to felons, that is a change that would have to be made by the legislature and has nothing to do with the individual and the ability to really live a changed life.
How perceptive, but no thanks, not if you are in the group.
"a relationship with a living God through His Son."
Exactly, that would include a path to redemption. You may preach it, but do you believe in it? If a man repents and ask for forgiveness, Jesus says we must do it.