Doesn't shock me in the least. Desperate times call for desperate measures. The guy has gone off the deep end, and this move is a move of total desperation. But then again, i really can't say that he wouldn't have pulled people out of prison to fight for him on any other situation. I can tell you that if i was a prisoner, i would have taken the $ and a free trip out of jail too. Can't blame them, one can only imagine how bad those prisons are.