Surely it would depend upon the crime and upon the inmate, but I do not know that there is any value to such mathematics, Sir.

If you would exonerate an inmate for ignorance of the rules, then by the same logic, should you not excuse a warden for lack of ability? Or due to ignorance of the consequences of inadequacy?

[There's a brief pause though, as he keeps thinking about it.]

To my thinking Sir, it is a wrong for a warden to be negligent in his duties, but that it is a separate wrong to the crimes that an inmate may commit because of it.