Each prisoner who emerges unreformed will start committing crimes again (a more frightening thought when you realise that one in four commits violent crimes).
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.