The fund raiser was held in the Washington D.C. area on December 9, but the trees still have their leaves and the grass is green.
An assessment of whether a convict is worthy of parole is not done the day before the parole board meets to consider their parole. The assessment would happen weeks before.
When interviewing a convict to see if he is worthy of parole, the interview would happen in a meeting room, not in the convicts cell where the convicts on either side of his cell can hear everything being discussed.
This episode place in Washington DC. It is stated that James Stanworth was not only born and raised in DC, but has also never left the city. It is also revealed that he is running for Congress. However, he could not do so. Washington DC has no congressmen, being that it is not a state. He also can not run for congress in another state since he is not a resident of that state, as stated in The Constitution: Article 1; Section 2; Clause 2.
Whenever someone rewinds the VHS tape, we see a succession of selected frames of the video, which wouldn't happen with a VHS tape. The image should have moved backwards and there should have been tracking lines on the screen.
The footage on the VHS tape is obviously digital and made to look analog. It doesn't look anything like it came from an actual VHS tape.