# A question about Iraqi Liberation **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 8, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-iraqi-liberation/167316 "2003-04-08T15:06:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![metroshane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@metroshane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metroshane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-iraqi-liberation/167316/1 "2003-04-08T15:06:03Z")
So when Iraq is fully liberated, what happens to the folks that were imprisoned by the former regime? Sure some of them are legitimate criminals…but I’m sure a lot were unjustly (at least by our standards) imprisoned. Do they just open the prison doors and give everyone a fresh start? ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-iraqi-liberation/167316/2 "2003-04-08T15:15:06Z")
My WAG would be that whatever new government is installed in Iraq would come up with a plan to evaluate people who claim to be wrongly imprisoned. ---
**Author:** ![metroshane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@metroshane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metroshane)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-iraqi-liberation/167316/3 "2003-04-08T15:17:44Z")
“people who claim to be wrongly imprisoned.” -you mean all of them? ---
**Author:** ![xash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xash)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-question-about-iraqi-liberation/167316/4 "2003-04-08T18:17:54Z")
A precedent. Not sure if it was intended this way : [http://www.yahoo.com/s/75061](http://www.yahoo.com/s/75061)