[Avodah] halachic attitude to the convicted

[Daniel Eidensohn]

Rav Sternbuch told me a story about the Chazon Ish. There was a secular 
Israeli who was thrown in jail on some questionable charge. People came 
to the Chazon Ish and asked him whether there was a mitzva of pidyon 
shevuim. The Chazon Ishe asked whether the man kept taharas mishpacha? 
When he heard the answer was negative he told them that it was for his 
own good that he stay in jail