Yes, a friend of mine couldn’t ride his own drug beef (as they say) and so he set me up to go in his stead. Read my blog on Justice and my Prison diary .
There is no rehabilitation in the California prison system. In fact, the whole place is designed to make you more dysfunctional so that you will keep coming back.
I won’t because I was never a criminal in the first place, but I now have a keen regard for how easy it is to get caught up on something very minor—things that most guys don’t even know are crimes, like carrying a fixed blade knife longer than 2” in your pocket (considered a concealed weapon, which can get you 18 months in prison).