penitentiary

One hundred miles northwest, in Atlanta’s federal penitentiary, the FBI finally gave up on trying to flip Rudolf Abel.

Under Georgia's new penitentiary code, which came into force in January last year, inmates "have the right to fresh air at least one hour on a daily basis", it said.

He has since published videos of torture in Russia’s penitentiary system and collected accounts from prison guards and Russian military deserters who are now giving testimony to international courts.

Several defense attorneys filed court declarations describing meetings and conference calls with Christopher Synsvoll, a Bureau of Prisons attorney based at the Florence penitentiary who served as liaison to the inmates’ lawyers.

County prosecutors had charged that Landa-Rodriguez, while incarcerated in a federal penitentiary for illegally reentering the country, sanctioned the killing of a rival’s underling.