If the jury reaches a “guilty” verdict, the defendant is “convicted” of the crime. A few weeks after the defendant is found guilty, he returns to court to be “sentenced”, or told by the judge how much time he will serve in prison.

When this occurs, the judge often takes into account the feelings of the victims and how they were affected by the crime.

Then he/she is escorted by the United States Marshals Service

to federal prison - the Federal Bureau of Prisons - to serve out his/her pronounced sentence.