One could hardly guess that the pleasant-natured and friendly fellows walking and jogging around the track have lifelong prison sentences. Most of the federal prisoners with first-offense life sentences without possibility of parole at Lompoc penitentiary talk and act very much like a good neighbor or your respected local businessman. Yet the federal government has condemned thousands of them to die in prison for a non-violent drug violation. Most of the time no drugs are found. Eighty percent of federal drug conspiracy and money laundering indictments are from felons snitching off anyone they can to get out of jail.
Great accusations are more rewarded than truth.
In fact, truth is not a requirement for the snitch's reward just testimony. The life sentenced federal prisoner will never be released, unless the government adopts a sane policy to stop drug war incarcerations and put the productive incarcerated people back in the community to work, care for their families, and pay taxes. Unfortunately, the general public has no idea who the life sentence prisoners are. The media and government spin, paints the fictional picture of heinous, demented killers toting machine guns and lurking around playgrounds with bags of narcotics for the kiddies. They are not violent criminals who have left behind a wake of murder or rape.