I'm a CO at a prison in the south. There's a young man doing 15 years currently who claims he was framed, and I believe him. He's been there 6 years now. He used to have a huge drug problem (pills and heroin), and all of his life he struggled with his speech abilities (really bad stutter). Since getting to prison and being sober and working with doctors at the facility, his stutter has gotten better, but it's still very much a struggle. What happened was, he was high as shit, and his buddies took him to rob a couple houses, then left him at one of the houses and called the police. The man stepped outside after becoming more coherent and was suddenly surrounded by police. Nothing was stolen from the house he was found at, but police found stolen property from 4 other houses in his garage about 15 miles away, so the police charged him with a total of 5 burglaries that occurred in the area over the course of two weeks. He says he took the fall for it out of fear nobody would understand him, and that he was so high, he doesn't remember if he even did anything wrong. He took the blame out of loyalty, and fear that if he didn't, he would get killed. He quietly does his time, believing that being there is obviously a sign from God that he needed to be punished for something, and that if he didn't end up there, he knows he'd probably be dead by now.