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What would Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev face?By Ray Sanchez and Alexandra Field, CNNIt's home to Ramzi Yousef, who plotted the 1993 bombing at the World Trade Center; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski; and Richard Reid, the "shoe bomber."When in...

Even as harsh sentences are reconsidered, the financial - and human tolls mountBy Sari Horwitz - Washington Post - May 2, 2015INSIDE COLEMAN PRISON, Fla.Twenty-one years into his nearly 50-year sentence, the graying man steps inside his stark cell in the largest federal prison complex in America....

Airmail via Drones Is Vexing for PrisonsLee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, S.C., where a drone was launched from a wooded area and became tangled in power lines outside the prison.By Michael Scmidt - NY TIMES - APRIL 22, 2015BISHOPVILLE, S.C. - During the graveyard shift at 1:44 a.m., s...

Life Without ParoleApril 15, 2015FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) - Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder in a deadly late-night shooting, sealing the downfall of an athlete who once had a $40 million contract and a standout career ahead of him.H...

Jodi Arias, left, looks on next to her attorney, Jennifer Willmott, during her sentencing in Maricopa County Superior Court, Monday, April 13, 2015, in PhoenixPHOENIX - A judge sentenced convicted murderer Jodi Arias to life in prison without the possibility of release on Monday, ending a nearly ...

A corrections assistant with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, inspects a tracking monitor on an inmate on house arrest, at Clark County Detention Center Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)By BEN BOTKINLAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNALAnkle bracelets and electronic moni...

Heather Kofalt at home in Franklin, Pa. Phone calls with her husband, Anthony, who is in a prison just a few hours' drive away, cost $12.95 for 15 minutes.CreditStephanie Strasburg for The New York TimesBy Timothy Williams - New York TimesMarch 30, 2015Global Tel-Link Corp. and Securus Technologi...

President cuts sentences of 22 drug convicts, including some given life in prison for their crimes.March 31, 2015President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of nearly two dozen drug offenders, including eight people who were serving life sentences, the White House said Tuesday.The 22 people gra...

Jodi Arias looks toward the jury entering the courtroom during the sentencing phase retrial in Phoenix March 3, 2015.PHOENIX - A jury in Arizona failed to reach a verdict on Thursday in the sentencing retrial of Jodi Arias, sparing the former waitress from the death penalty for murdering her ex-b...