Following his conviction for drug smuggling Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is likely to spend the rest of his life at a U.S. maximum security jail.

Condemned to die for his part in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is likely to await his fate for years, if not decades, locked up in grim prisons under extreme conditions while his lawyers appeal his sentence.

For years, conditions inside the United States’ only federal supermax facility were largely a mystery. But a landmark lawsuit is finally revealing the harsh world within, writes Mark Binelli

Lawyers for an alleged terrorist facing extradition to the United States say he may end up in a supermax prison in Colorado described by a former warden 'as a clean version of hell'.

Radical cleric Abu Hamza and four other terrorist suspects wanted by the US authorities will be handed over “as quickly as possible”, according to the British home secretary.