Editing Robert Hanssen (section)

=== Guilty plea and imprisonment ===
[[File:Florence ADMAX.jpg|thumb|[[United States Penitentiary, Florence ADX]], where he was incarcerated]]
Represented by Washington, D.C., lawyer [[Plato Cacheris]], Hanssen negotiated a [[plea bargain]] that enabled him to avoid the death penalty in exchange for cooperating with authorities.<ref name="transcript" /> On July 6, 2001, he pleaded guilty to 13 counts of espionage, one count of attempted espionage, and one of [[conspiracy (crime)|conspiracy]] to commit espionage in the [[U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia]].<ref name="transcript" /><ref name="usdoj.gov" /> On May 10, 2002, Hanssen was sentenced to 15 consecutive sentences of [[Life imprisonment|life in prison]] without the possibility of parole. "I apologize for my behavior. I am shamed by it," Hanssen told [[U.S. District Court|U.S. District]] Judge [[Claude M. Hilton|Claude Hilton]]. "I have opened the door for [[:wikt:calumny|calumny]] against my totally innocent wife and children. I have hurt so many deeply."<ref>{{Cite news| title = FBI Spy Robert Hanssen Gets Life Sentence | publisher = [[FoxNews.com]] | date = May 10, 2002| url = https://www.foxnews.com/story/fbi-spy-robert-hanssen-gets-life-sentence/ | access-date = December 23, 2013| archive-date = March 3, 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150303214929/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2002/05/10/fbi-spy-robert-hanssen-gets-life-sentenc-678637401/| url-status = live }}</ref>
[[File:Robert Hanssen imprisoned.jpg|thumb|In his cell at ADX Florence]]
Hanssen was [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] prisoner #48551-083. From July 17, 2002, until his death, he served his sentence at the [[ADX Florence]], a federal [[supermax prison]] near [[Florence, Colorado|Florence]], Colorado, in [[solitary confinement]] for 23 hours a day.<ref>Laura Sullivan, [[National Public Radio]] [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5579901 ''Timeline: Solitary Confinement in US Prisons''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180715064457/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5579901 |date=July 15, 2018}} July 26, 2006. Retrieved February 15, 2007.</ref><ref>"[http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=48551-083&x=411&y=291 Robert Philip Hanssen] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090614050540/http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=IDSearch&needingMoreList=false&IDType=IRN&IDNumber=48551-083&x=411&y=291 |date=June 14, 2009}}." [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]. Retrieved January 5, 2010.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert Hanssen, one of America's most notorious spies, dies in prison |url=https://abc7.com/robert-hanssen-spy-adx-florence-russia-death/13347988/ |access-date=June 6, 2023 |website=[[WLS-TV]]|date=June 5, 2023 }}</ref>