Does the cycle of going back to jail over & over ever stop?

Just out of curiousity my son has been in placement six or seven different times and just recently was placed with me after being wit his father after five years and his dad failing a urine test fro cocaine. Now this doesn't make me feel like no macho mom at all but my son still being on probation and me being a mother of all worries my son was suppose to be going to a viewing for a friend that had passed away I gave him the lead way and left go but he knew his curfew. He didn't return home. So I was very concerned to find out he was at a girl's house to fine out the next morning that was all true. The mother of the girl calls me and says she felt bad she didn't call she thought it was too late. When it comes to my child no time is too late. Any way my son now sets in another youth center after six times in others, therapeutic foster care, court this thursday and probation recommendation is to now send him to abraxus I'm devastated. I just got him back after five years. Does this cycle ever stop?