My jaw dropped...
He was previously a behavioural scientist in prisons.
I just find this surprising. I guess he'll be studying behaviors in an American prison then? But not as an employee.. <SMH>
Dread Pirate Roberts' first mate Peter Nash faces life behind bars
An Australian faces life behind bars in the USA after entering a guilty plea for his role in Ross Ulbricht's Silk Road operation. Peter Phillip Nash, who went by the tag “Samesamebutdifferent” on the online drug bazaar, put his hands up to narcotics and money laundering charges. Nash was arrested in the Australian city of …
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Monday 16th March 2015 10:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: 20 years to life for trafficking a kilogram of heroin and ten years to life for 5kg of Cocaine
"bankers/brokers/financial institutions that caused a global financial meltdown."
Because that was primarily triggered by poor market regulation in the US. So would have been politically embarrassing...
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Monday 16th March 2015 19:19 GMT Eddy Ito
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It's the magic theory of drug war crime in the US where once you reach a paltry amount of contraband you might as well go whole hog and fill the entire shipping container. Even murder has differing rates depending on the circumstances but drug warriors know no tolerance to degree. Of course it's all getting a bit ridiculous when making like a bear in the Californian woods can make you a sex offender for life no different in the eye of the state than a garden variety pedophile or rapist.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
