It is an injustice to imprison an innocent man.
If you are speaking colloquially, that is okay.
If you're speaking legally, you can't imprison an innocent man, because if they're in prison they have been found guilty and are therefore, legally, not innocent. (You can jail them, however, because people can be jailed before trial, whether they are innocent or guilty.)
That's the problem going around here. There are multiple uses and meanings of guilt and innocence. There's the common meaning, and there's the legal meaning, and they're quite different. But you and some others use them interchangeably, which is an error.
As long as you're discussing legal issues in the legal arena, you should use them correctly in their legal usage. |
