Each prisoner who emerges unreformed will start committing crimes again (a more frightening thought when you realise that one in four commits violent crimes).
Everybody thought that there was no way to keep crimes checked unless you occasionally beat them up or managed them with beating them up or blackmail them into something.
One of Arajs's deputies, Harijs Svikeris, settled in Britain after the war and in the 1990s was thought to be a strong candidate to be prosecuted under the War Crimes Act.
The crimes were carried out because the victims were gay or thought to be gay and this also led to random attacks on drivers who were simply using the lay-bys for other reasons.
Instead of allowing the criminals responsible for bank fraud to run free as the years passed by, Iceland thought it might be wise to actually indict bankers who committed serious financial crimes that contributed to the collapse.
But a number of analysts thought the vice president made some headway criticizing Bush's record in Texas, arguing that the governor blocked hate crimes legislation and presides over a state that ranks last in health insurance for families and next to last for raising children.