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Court is back in session on monday. the penalty phase of the boston marathon bombing trial. the jury is considering if the suspect will be sentenced to death or life behind bars. we look at the prison where he could spend the rest of his life. a super max. >> super max is what its called. its the united states administrative maximum facility known as adx or super max. lets take you inside. its described as the most restrictive prison in the federal system here. take a look. inmates spend 23 hour...

Facility in florence colorado. this is where some of the worst of the worst are sent. take a look at some of these inmates. olympic park bomber eric rudolph, unabomber ted kosinski. also the man who assisted in the oklahoma city bombing, terry nichols, and the shoe bomber richard reid. my next guest has serve time in federal prison. larry levene. when we talk about hell this is how ive heard the super max referred to. what kind of hell are we talking? >> well he may not necessarily end up at the...

Minutes. i live in a toilet. is that a great argument for dzhokhar tsarnaevs lawyer to tell that jury? >> well, it is, in the sense it would make the jury satisfied that he is being punished if hes going to stay in a place like that. even though thats really not the purpose of presenting mitigating evidence. but it is helpful to a jury if theyre thinking, well, will it just be a walk in the park if hes at super max? >> club fed. >> when we talk about some of those horrific cases, you have to tak...

Came from a dysfunctional family, who made bad decisions. were it not for tamerlan none of this would have happened. now, his family is expected here today, six members of his family that arrived from overseas. some of them may testify on his behalf to humanize him, to see if the jury will show some mercy. all 12 jurors must vote for the death penalty, otherwise hell receive life in prison and that would likely be at the super max in florence, colorado also called the alcatraz of the rockies. jo...

Maximum-security prison. leslie walker is director of prison security in massachusetts and i spoke with her shortly before air about what conditions will be like. >> leslie this maximum-security prison where hernandez is going, what is life like there for him there? >> life for him will be crowded. there are a thousand people in that prison. a thousand prisoners and several hundred staff. it is a maximum-security prison built as a super-max. it is built for punishment. there is little opportunit...

Stadium he used to play at. its just the first stop in transporting. eventually hell go about forty miles outside of boston and spend at least two years of his life sentence there and depending on how he behaves, he may go elsewhere, a less maximum security prison. lesley walker spent a lot of time at the prison over the years and i talked to her about what conditions will be like. lessly this facility that he will be going, whats life like for him there? >> life for him will be crowded. there a...

Today, someone that is a convicted terrorist under the most serious federal laws we have against terrorism, how does she paint that picture as early as next week how does she depict that? >> she will use his age, appeal to that because they might have sons daughters, nieces that age so she will drive home the youth of him. she will try to drive home during the criminal trial, the dominance of tamerlan. he was the more dominant personality but it doesnt release dzokhar of the cup pablt. but she w...

Worse. i know that is hard to believe sometimes, but places like the super-max, where you are locked up in a cell 23 hours a day, if that is where he was put and mcveigh, and mcnichols, the shoe bomber and sean knows about it fbi, we filled up that bombers row, and it is awful and worse than death in my opinion. but she will try to save his life even to put him there. >> jim, i believe you on that front. but just to remind people there is no death penalty in the state of massachusetts. the reaso...

Extraordinary is that the rifles didnt stop them. >> february 23rd, 2000, crescent city, california. deep behind the redwood curtain is pelican bay state prison, one of the countrys highest correctional security facilities, a super max prison, housing some of the most dangerous and violent criminals. teda boyle is a retired lieutenant from pelican bay. she was a watch commander on the day of the riot. >> the kind of people that were there were guilty of some of the most heinous crimes. murder, s...

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