See, the problem with 'escorting' wanted ships to prison isn't really what the authorities would do. I mean, you won't see a Corvette being 'escorted' to the county jail for drive-bying someone and then going at 250 mph in a residential zone. What do they do instead ? Well, the guy either stops or his car gets wrecked by five police cruisers. In the end, he gets transported to the jail in a police van, not his own vehicle.
The same applies to FL. Ships have ejection mechanisms, so they don't die if the ship goes boom. Remember the first mission of the SP campaign ? They needed Ashcroft alive, but I didn't see them asking him to 'tag along' to the prison. They, instead, shot his ass up. Also, in the mission you escape from Liberty, you meet a bunch of bounty hunters that say 'Target the engines, we need them alive'. So really, bounty hunters don't always kill their targets.
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