For a pickpocket who has served half of a two-year sentence, it would be excessively harsh to insist on the sentence being served in full if that meant that he would die in prison, rather than with his family.
Dans le cas d’un pickpocket qui a purgé la moitié d’une peine de deux ans, il serait extrêmement sévère d’insister qu’il aille au bout de sa peine si cela signifie qu’il meurt en prison plutôt qu’au sein de sa famille.