[Nonstatist]

Is he in jail because he was tried and found guilty?

He's in jail because he would flee if he was let out. Good enough reason for you?

[Age of Reason]

He's in jail because he would flee if he was let out. Good enough reason for you?

No.

[Age of Reason]

And another thing: I seem to remember that in Ancient Rome a patriarch had the power of life and death over all his offspring; it was no affair of the state how he ruled his family.

(Though I am not sure that Blake would qualify as the patriarch in his family.)

This is not as strange an idea as it might first appear if we consider the male head of a family as king of his own land and offspring--the ruler of his own little country.

Just another way of looking at things, is all.