[Avodah] halachic attitude to the convicted

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 4:16pm EDT, R Samuel Svarc wrote:
: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:35 AM,  <Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org> wrote:
:> should the general rule be that if someone, is jailed, for whatever
:> reason, we should be praying for his release?
:> is there any crime where that is NOT true?

: Sure. Any person that halacha feels should be imprisoned.

Does that include people incarcerated under secular law? The existence
and enforcement of civil law is one of the 7 mitzvos benei Noach. So
what if they prohibit something we don't, and set the punishment to
be imprisonment?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha