He would have had an opportunity to use his personal skills to help other prisoners.
Every year he trains about 200 law students to work with him to help prisoners and disadvantaged people in inner cities.
In the past, for example, some prisons established drug treatment programs to help prisoners who wanted to overcome their addictions.
Many states have limited programs to help prisoners with drug problems.
He is credited with having helped more than 400 political and religious prisoners in China.
If states sent fewer people back to prison, they could use that savings to help former prisoners re-enter society.
Libération-Nord, which had charged itself with helping prisoners to escape.
But German officials soon removed her from that position because she had tried to help fellow prisoners.
Beginning as early as the 1940s, Bonner had helped political prisoners and their families.
He helps other prisoners by putting up money when needed.