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Yeah was it 15 or 25-life? No way he got life without parole that is just insanity! I mean he had a damn website he wasn't out molesting and killing people.

Federal crimes no longer have parole. Congress did away with parole in the late 80's. A sentence in federal court of life means you are going to die in prison.

wow that just sucks

It does suck but it was designed to give convicted felons no hope and in doing so curb illegal behavior. The fact that the elimination of parole has had zero success in curbing the crime rate is beside the point.

Why is it "beside the point"?
Do you think victimless crimes should still land people in jail?
Why?

Sarcasm doesn't transmit well in written form.

The state of the criminal justice system in the US is being questioned seriously in current politics. Things change very slowly in the United States when they do change. So, if the draconian sentencing scheme is going to change, it probably wont affect Ross' sentence until long after he's dead anyway. The United States has more people in prison per capita then any other nation in the world....period....the prison system is an industry in the US. People who've been proven to be innocent many years ago are still being held in custody....It doesn't make sense to fight it with rhetoric....the prison industry drives a large part of the economy in the US so sound reasoning will lose out to greedy capitalists there. We should all be happy that there are people like Ross willing to do life in prison to drive the economy for the rest of us!