Charles Hayes, spokesman for the Fifth Column which drained about $4billion out of numbered accounts of corrupt politicians in the mid-Nineties, and confronted them with a paper trail, suggesting they resign... set up by an FBI agent who phoned him over several months offering to kill Mr. Hayes' son for him, sent before a bought judge who instructed the prosecution as to how to conduct their case, sentenced to something like 8 years....

Michael Reconosciuto, the most misspelt name in Conspiracy Land, who guided the modification of Promis software on an Indian reservation near Death Valley... warned if he testified for Inslaw, the firm who developed Promis, that they would get him, but did so anyway and is now serving time for running a methamphetamine lab, his last known place of incarceration Allenwood in Pennsylvania, a sort of compulsory golf resort, presumably because he's so smart they might want to use him again.

Lisa Michelle Lambert, convicted in '92 for the murder of 16-year-old Laurie Show after a non-jury trial, found "actually innocent" by a federal judge in '96 who called her trial "the worst case of prosecutorial misconduct in the history of the English-speaking world," but whose decision was overruled by the Court of Appeals, merely on the grounds that Lambert had not exhausted her appeal process at the state level, so she returned to prison and started over... her next appeal before Lancaster County Judge Lawrence Stengel (her original trial judge)in '98 so procedurally hampered, and contested not by the local DA but by the Pennsylvania State Attorney General's whores, Stengel's book-length decision upholding her conviction without bothering to mention that the sweatpants the Commonwealth claims Lambert wore while hacking Laurie Show's throat open to the bone have no bloodstains on them, Stengel now a prime candidate for the Federal judiciary, Lambert's case about to be heard again by the now villified and media-tainted federal judge who freed her.

Wanna bet?

It is cases like these, multiplied by the hundreds, that have helped the United States win First Prize in the Incarceration Derby. We now have more prison inmates per capita than any other nation. Is it any wonder?