Thanks, Seak.
Oregon doesn't have an online database, so I emailed them and just got a reply this morning:
Inst admission date... 10/11/1995
Earliest release date. No parole
So there you go. I was pretty sure he was lying, but wanted verification, just to make myself feel better.
Carry on...
(And by the way, Bruce, he HATES bubblebaths, and wouldn't wash my hair if I begged him, but then, prison changes a man.....)