User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 505: Trump Card, Review/@comment-5303512-20161009044942/@comment-7418318-20161009100529

"We broke the rules, not the law" or somesuch was what Flare had to say about her not being imprisoned. The same holds true for Ivan too. He cheated and thus was banned from the competition, but he didn't break the law, so wouldn't have been put in prison.