It's about a white boy who was apparently hanging out with the major players in the Detroit coke/crack game in the 80s, and moving some weight as a juvie, though he certainly wasn't a central figure. He also was an underage informant (at 14!!!) for the FBI, something that could easily have gotten him killed. They and local cops got him out of a serious weapons charge: shooting at a moving vehicle, in order to allow him to keep informing.
These local cops, btw, were quite clearly actively helping certain dealers: guarding shipments, warning of homicide investigations, etc, including helping the mayor's niece who was dating various serious dealers. Anyway, kid got caught while 17 (I think) and was sentenced under a draconian so-called 650 law guaranteeing life in prison for possession of 650g of cocaine.
Now it gets interesting. The so-called 650 law was repealed and most people sentenced under it have been paroled. So why is this guy -- and remember, he went to prison at 17 -- so why are the adults all free and he's in jail? For example, the guys selling $55m/year of cocaine were out in 11. He maybe sold a million dollars total.
Roughly, it seems that he helped the FBI go after the corrupt local cops, and in revenge, at his parole hearing, the pigs sent a bunch of cops who were, at most, tenuously connected to him and uninvolved in the investigation to testify how dangerous he is. Using illegally leaked grand jury testimony. One of these cops who testified against him was later imprisoned for his own mortgage fraud scam, amongst other things.
Oh, and all the dirty cops sent to prison have naturally already been released while this guy rots in prison.
And don't forget the parole board who decided to uncritically listen to testimony from pigs who were completely uninvolved in the case, testimony informed by leaked grand jury testimony.