In ww2, when the jws were being persecuted, I think there was something about the nazis letting jws resign from their religion so they could be released from prison. Not sure how that worked.
Honestly, I would SO resign right now and get the hell out of prison. But no, they're so faithful and brainwashed they're going to suffer for it.
Who has time to be a martyr anyways? That's total bs.