Catch-22 is where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
State prisoners are often caught by Catch-22 when they seek release on parole or from the mental hospital on the ground that they're model citizens now.
"Tell us what other crimes you've committed," they are asked by therapists, and not under any protection of legal confidentiality. The report of the therapist goes back to the judge and DA.
If the prisoner doesn't confess to all his uncharged crimes, he isn't released, because he hasn't "accepted responsibility" for his life and crimes.
Parole boards don't usually want to hear a prisoner's claim of innocence. Parole boards want to hear prisoners abjectly accepting responsibility. No responsibility, no release.
What about the prisoners who are factually innocent? We keep reading about them in the news. Must they admit responsibility for crimes they didn't commit? Or are they just blame shifting and in-denial when they don't accept responsibility. Deny responsibility and you don't get out. You are punished more for being innocent than for being guilty.
The 9th Circuit said this has got to stop.