Since the purpose of jailing a criminal is that of reformation rather than retribution - improving him rather than paying him back for some crime that he has done -- it is highly inconsistent to take the life of a criminal.
A company doesn't know whether a government request is for the purposes of jailing a political dissident or for tracking down a bomb about to explode.
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But I was struck by the degree to which conservatives have taken to using the fact of Ryan's selection as an all-purpose, get-out-of-jail-free card for Romney, even as his campaign coordinators have begun speaking a somewhat different language.
Second, and equally dismaying, Libya may read this triumph as a certified all-purpose "get out of jail free" card absolving it of a broad swath of bad acts.
"He has suffered mightily, and I don't see the purpose of sending this man to jail.
Even if preparations for this fight, while typical, serve a different purpose: to distract from the reality, jabs instead of jail.
Yet, its role in keeping people out of jail is less well documented.
The research he singled out — to determine why prisoners want to get out of jail or document the sex life of screwworms — were easy targets, although usually there was a serious purpose.
Foreign pressure kept him out of jail.
