As Gaider has stated himself in this post: http://social.biowar...250603/3#255320, "Jowan was planned to be another full party companions. The Warden would have used the Right of Conscription to recruit him after Arl Eamon was healed. However, this was cut very early in the game's development."
Let's say that developers didn't cut Jowan and we could've recruited him and even made him a warden, would you actually conscript Jowan or leave him to Eamon's judgement?
Despite everything, I'd be likely to recruit him if I had a chance. True, he did poison Arl Eamon and he is a Blood Mage. But ultimately, it seems like Jowan was merely dealt a bad hand across all accounts.
Let's see, his parents despised him for being a mage, and he only broke his phylactery because of an understandable fear of being lobotomized and he later only resorted to blood magic to protect the Chantry Initiate that he loved (who ironically and ungratefully ditched him out of fear). He runs away and is nearly caught until Loghain intervenes.
Based on dialogue from Jowan himself, Loghain pretty much gave Jowan the idea that poisoning Arl Eamon was a good thing and would serve Ferelden's greater interests. Considering that Jowan had a very limited exposure to the outside world and particularly it's politics, Jowan would've had no way of knowing that Loghain was lying to him to use him until it was too late. So Jowan takes advantage of Isolde's stupidity and tutors Connor in basic magic while finding a chance to poison Eamon which believes is a good action.
Isolde finds out and rightfully imprisons him, but after Connor becomes possessed, Isolde starts outright torturing and mistreating Jowan even after he's told her everything that he knows and stays there for at least one month if not a whole year while Redcliffe's situation deteriorates. When the Warden finds him, he doesn't beg for his life if you decide to kill him and will actually come to aid the Warden save Connor later on either with the Blood Ritual or by going into the Fade himself if the Circle is recruited.
He is guilty of several crimes, no question of that. He's a runaway Blood mage who poisoned a member of nobility.
However, he only resorted to blood magic to protect/save others and was honestly a pawn rather than the chessmaster like Loghain acting under false information meant to ensure his compliance. He'll also use his magic to protect refugees if you tell him never to come back and he is genuinely remorseful and repentant of his actions.
Being recruited either as a normal party member or as a Grey Warden is a second chance for him to do some real no-strings attached good and an earlier example of a blood mage who isn't evil proving that magic is only evil when used for evil. Plus Riorden's argument for having as many wardens as possible since there's only less than 5 has more of a logical application and context to this situation.
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