"The prisoner is essentially a needy person. The scale of the needy has been traced in
that discourse of Christ, to which I have already had occasion to refer, referred to in the chapter
twenty-fifth of San Mateo: hungry, thirsty, naked, homeless, sick, prisoners;
a scale that leads from the essential physical need or, better, animal, to the need
essentially spiritual: the prisoner has no need of food or clothing, neither a house nor
medicines; the only medicine, for him, is friendship. People don't know, and they don't even know
jurists, that what is asked of the lawyer is the alms of friendship, before any other
thing." (Carnelutti, Francesco; The miseries of criminal proceedings; Chap. III).
See Mt. 25:31-46 (The judgment of the nations).
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"But when they bound him with straps, Paul said to the centurion who was present: Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen who has not been condemned?" (Acts 22:25).