[Avodah] halachic attitude to the convicted

[Eli Turkel]

> 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.

Do you mean where he is actually sentenced k'halacha (i.e., by beit
din), or where the facts, were they to be heard by a beit din would
warrant his imprisonment? >>

A simple case would be where the bet din itself refered the case to the police.
I have heard from R. Zilberstein that there have been cases where the
local bet din
felt that they could not handle some cases and caled in the police. I
assume that such
a convict should stay in jail. The last thing the bet would want is
for this dangerous person
to be let loose.

Imagine that a serial murderer is sentenced to a long prison term.
Would you want to pray for
his release to come back to the community?

As several have mentioned many gedolim as the Steipler and RSZA have said that
in some cases the person deserves to be in jail for their crimes

-- 
Eli Turkel