So here's the scoop. We're supposedly here for life, and no one back home is going to notice we're gone because we've been replaced by clones programmed to act like us, only without our "criminal urges". Don't ask me how that's possible, it's just what Veridical told me.
The wardens don't seem to give a damn whether removing our illegal acts from the timeline would make things better or worse. [ He's thinking of some of his charges. Suicide. Necrophilia (ha ha). If he doesn't do those things, everyone is fucked. ]