You are given a sentence in Japanese. Your job is to translate the Japanese sentence into English.
Q: 人々が集まるのは通常ならば投獄されてしまいますが
A:

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
user
People could not gather without getting busted and taken to jail.