User blog comment:BastionMonk/How bad was Peter Ludlow?/@comment-5870856-20130523233623/@comment-1791057-20130526061152

You cannot be sent to prison on criminal charges for breaking an NDC unless there other criminal acts you have committed that are found to be related to the breaking of said NDC, which there weren't. However, Ludlow broke US federal defamation laws when he slandered and/or libeled Ian Malcolm, which caused him his job and his livelihood due to Ludlow twisting the story to make Malcolm look like he was making up stories for money.