Bernie Madoff’s 150 year sentence handed down this week was probably a life sentence. (There is no parole for federal prisoners who committed their crimes after November 1, 1987.)
But Madoff’s sentence is not, by any stretch of the imagination, the longest sentence handed down by an American court. That distinction may belong to convicted murderer Dudley Wayne Kyzer who is serving a 10,000 year sentence at the St. Clair prison in Alabama.
