Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25317362-20140925205832/@comment-26812261-20140926041128

Dioptase wrote: The most disturbing thing is that they new that someone was trapped in the mirror, fully conscious yet only able to follow orders, yet they did not feel compelled to do anything about it. Yes, it turned out that Lapis was in fact very dangerous, but they had no way of knowing who was trapped inside.

But like Pearl said, they simply don't know what *to* do about it, so they have to keep them subdued in order to keep them from wreaking havoc. They seem to work off the assumption that all corrupted gems are dangerous, and thus far, even in Lapis' case, they haven't been wrong. I think that due to Lapis' exceptional power, she did something unprecedented by reclaiming her original form, which may have been what allowed Steven to heal her as opposed to other corrupted gems that his mother couldn't heal. GAP didn't handle things all that well when Lapis got free, but they admitted that it was a contingency they hadn't prepared for.