This is a fair counter point, but there's very little short of capital crimes that truly (IMO) warrants a pseudo-life sentence in a US max prison. The condition

This is a fair counter point, but there's very little short of capital crimes that truly (IMO) warrants a pseudo-life sentence in a US max prison. The conditions are horrific by the standards of developing nations, to say nothing of other developed countries. The fact that our legal system routinely doles out punishments that are not in proportion to the crime is quite reason enough to deny extradition.