Is it better to have the atrocities committed upon a person by a stranger, or by their government, which is charged to protect them?<p>Getting arrested, tried, and imprisoned can be a brutal process all on its own. Losing years or even the entirety of the remainder of one&#x27;s life to imprisonment is (for me, at least) an extremely scary thought. The sort of treatment you can expect in prison is absolutely dehumanizing. You aren&#x27;t a name anymore, you are a number. You have no more freedoms, no choices, and unless you have someone on the outside financing your entertainment, you&#x27;re at the mercy of a very limited library of options for which the prison has absolutely no incentive to improve upon.<p>I have a father and a brother both in prison right now, and it is absolutely not an experience I would want to wish on any innocent person, even at the risk of criminals going free.