Until that day, you're nothing but an escaped federal prisoner.

At the end of 2000, there were 1,236,476 people in state prisons and 145,416 federal prisoners.

However, most records indicate that between 150 and 200 were Federal prisoners.

It would be the first execution of a federal prisoner in nearly four decades.

The difference is about one week per year for every federal prisoner serving a term of more than a year's duration.

The number of times convicted federal prisoners could appeal was also to be limited.

Prior to its construction, federal prisoners were held at state prisons.

The Board also made decisions on federal prisoners serving sentences in state institutions.

Legal experts said it was common for federal prisoners to spend the last six months of a sentence at a halfway house.

"You get around more than the average federal prisoner, I'll give you that," she said.