You know that whole "ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" that people always like to apply to people receiving the sentences? That goes for the sentenc

You know that whole "ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" that people always like to apply to people receiving the sentences? That goes for the sentences themselves (that is to say, it would be better if innocent people didn't have to gamble on perhaps being pardoned, but weren't charged or wrongly convicted in the first place).