> > Had he tried the other kinds of imprisonment?
>
>At the state level, I think, but who knows how those really compare?
>(Well, more experienced criminals, obviously, but I haven't had this
>particular conversation with any of them.)
I know a guy who was in and out of California state prison a few times. He was arrested in a federal case and sentenced to a facility in Arizona.
He wrote back to a friend with a similar history (who was waiting to be sentenced in the same case) that federal prison is "not even like prison."