[Avodah] halachic attitude to the convicted

[rabbirichwolpoe at gmail.com]

RDE:
> 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

I'm presuming an Israeli Jail so let's concede ein hachi nami to CI's p'saq.

What Would CI have paskened re:
    A. A secular American Jail
    B. A Czarist Jail?

IOW is the fact that his shivyon was by means of Yehudim a mitigating
factor - or not?

KT
RRW
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