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Sat 18 May, 2013 12:54 pm
I believe that if you are sentenced to a prison term and to pay a fine, you are allowed to allow someone else to pay the fine on your behalf, but you are not allowed to let someone else serve the prison term for you.
Why is one punishment transferable but not the other?
It would be unjust for an innocent person to serve a prison sentence deserved by someone else. If this was allowed, rich people sentenced to jail would pay desperate poor people to serve their sentences for them. Deprivation of liberty is intended as a punishment for a specific person. There is no similar reason why a person ordered to pay a fine should not pay it with money which is borrowed or given as a gift.
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