A Glossary of Prison Slang

I recently got done spending six years in a federal prison on a marijuana charge. I did time with bank robbers and child molesters who received less than half the sentence that I received. I was convicted without any evidence of any kind whatsoever other than coerced testimony from bribed snitches. While I was guilty of the first charge, I was punished for my refusal to snitch on my friends when the Feds manufactured a second charge and convicted me for something that I did not do. If the Feds can send people to prison strictly on the word of snitches without any other evidence, then they can send ANYONE to prison. Since they hand out 20 year prison sentences like pancakes, and since snitching is the only way to substantially reduce your sentence, they will always have a large stable of snitches willing to say whatever the prosecutor wants to hear - and most prosecutors have no problem with telling them what they want to hear. Most people think that everyone in prison claims to be innocent when they are actually guilty. My experience was that most guilty inmates freely admit their guilt, while most who claim to be innocent actually are innocent. Also, most people do not know that county jails are ten times more dangerous and violent than prisons are.

you're all innocent...it's everyone else who is guilty

I've been arrested only once, for a DUI accident where no one but me was injured. What you realize as soon as you find yourself on the other end of the law, for any reason, is that the law itself is a crime. It's all a matter of whose wearing a jump suit and who's holding the keys.