The Juice has been dwelling in the high-desert prison after being found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping in 2008.

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The U.S. military is trying to improve conditions for the nearly 20, 000 inmates it's holding at Camp Bucca, a prison camp in the desert of far-southern Iraq.

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The lion's share of U.S. drone missions are flown by Air Force pilots stationed at Creech, a tiny outpost in the barren Nevada desert, 20 miles north of a state prison and adjacent to a one-story casino.

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One winter morning, Robbins and I drove four and a half hours north from Las Vegas, through the desert, to the Tonopah Conservation Camp, a minimum-security prison, where a pickpocket named Gary Scott was serving time.

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