Unfortunately, what this all really boils down to is this:
- Sometimes good things happen to bad people.
- Sometimes bad things happen to good people.
- Life isn't always fair.
There's a one in 14 million chance that a lottery ticket bought by a prisoner on day release will come up with the jackpot.
I suspect that there's more than a one in 14 million chance that a prisoner -denied day release just because of the theoretical possibility they might buy a winning lottery ticket- will reoffend on their eventual release because they haven't been integrated back into society properly.