Prison Professors With Michael Santos

  John Rubischko went to prison for crimes related to mortgage fraud. After his arrest, he began cooperating with law enforcement. He cooperated for two years. With that extensive cooperation, he thought that a federal judge would spare him time in prison. John was wrong. A federal judge sentenced him to serve a 78 month sentence. A mistake in the paperwork resulted in John having to begin serving his sentence in a low-security federal prison rather than in a minimum-security federal prison camp--as he anticipated. John describes his experience of going through prison and offers some takeaways for anyone who faces challenges with the federal judicial system. We learn why defendants should be very cautious about the lawyers they hire, and we learn that they should also educate themselves about how to prepare.