You're making non-points. California has not effectively deployed various progressive policies. There exists certain people who are intractably violent or cruel and who cannot be healed or changed with the cutting edge of therapy or medicine.
So what?
This knowledge is not a sufficient excuse to give up on the problem. The status quo is unacceptable. That's the key fact.
These are acts that are not aligned with the topic of reformation of prisoners. Critique of claimed progressive acts (acts done by self proclaimed progressives vs those acts aligned with formalized progressive ideology) is irrelevant. If you just want to dump rhetoric, you can make a new submission for that.
The results is worsening crime rates and multiple examples of serial recidivism where the public pays the cost through lower quality of life.
I’m not saying there isn’t room for reform, but some people need to be in prison not for their own good, but for the public’s good.