"I don't know about you, but I want prisoners to stay in prison."
Even those innocent of any crime?
"To make a blanket statement like "[Contributing to keeping prisoners in prison] is in no way an inherently good thing" is just madness."
His statement isn't a blanket one, for reference the one you used which I quoted above is a blanket statement. For his statement to a blanket statement it would have to be phrased something like "Contributing to keeping prisoners in prison is an evil thing to do". Which is clearly neither what he said nor meant.
Even those innocent of any crime?
"To make a blanket statement like "[Contributing to keeping prisoners in prison] is in no way an inherently good thing" is just madness."
His statement isn't a blanket one, for reference the one you used which I quoted above is a blanket statement. For his statement to a blanket statement it would have to be phrased something like "Contributing to keeping prisoners in prison is an evil thing to do". Which is clearly neither what he said nor meant.