Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been moved to a Massachusetts prison facility from the hospital he has been held in for a week. 
 
 The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has been moved from the hospital to a federal prison 40 miles away that provides specialized medical care, the government said Friday. 
 
 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was moved from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he has been held and interrogated since his capture last week, to the federal prison at Fort Devens, Mass., the Marshals Service said. 
 
 Elise Amendola / AP Devens Federal Medical Center is seen in Devens, Mass., in 2011. 
 
 The prison’s website describes it as a facility for men who need specialized or long-term medical or mental health care. 
 
 The most prominent inmate there is Raj Rajaratnam, who in 2011 was sentenced to 11 years in prison for insider trading. He has diabetes, and the prison has a dialysis center. 
 
 The prison is in a wooded setting on a military base that was decommissioned in 1996. Another inmate there is Sabri Benkahla, who is serving 10 years for lying to authorities about training with militants in Pakistan. Benkahla was accused of being part of an American group that trained with paintball guns. He is scheduled for release in 2016. 
 
 Roger Stockham, a Southern California man who was accused in January 2011 of plotting to blow up a mosque outside Detroit, served at Fort Devens and was released late last year. Stockham has a long criminal history that includes holding a psychiatrist hostage, kidnapping his son, trying to hijack a plane and threatening to kill the president. 
 
 A lawyer who has had clients sentenced to Fort Devens told The Hartford Courant in 2005 that the prison has an outdoor basketball court. Crafts, including woodworking and making leather goods, are popular, the lawyer told the newspaper — though it is not clear how restricted Tsarnaev will be. 
 
 At the time, a judge had recommended that John Rowland, a former Connecticut governor who pleaded guilty to a corruption charge, be assigned to Fort Devens. Instead he served about 10 months at a federal prison in Pennsylvania. 
 
 In 1918, during a flu pandemic that killed tens of millions of people around the world, there was a severe outbreak at what was then known as Camp Devens — a ghastly scene of piled up corpses and cots overflowing onto porches. 
 
 The outbreak came in the last days of World War I. According to an account published by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, men at Devens were so sick that their oxygen-deprived skin turned deep blue. 
 
 The decision on where to send federal inmates is made by the Bureau of Prisons, which does not generally disclose its reasons for assigning prisoners. 
 
 Boston police could be seen early Friday leaving the hospital, which has treated not just Tsarnaev but people injured in the marathon blasts April 15. 
 
 Tsarnaev, 19, was upgraded earlier this week to fair condition from serious. His injuries, including a gunshot wound to the head and neck that may have been self-inflicted, were so severe that he initially communicated with investigators by moving his head and in writing. 
 
 He also has injuries to the leg and hand, apparently from a firefight with police in suburban Watertown, Mass., on April 19 that played out about 12 hours before Tsarnaev was captured hiding in a boat parked in the driveway of a house. 
 
 New York authorities said Thursday that Tsarnaev had improved to the point that he could talk, and that in a second round of questioning he admitted that he and his brother decided on the run to carry out a second attack in Times Square. His brother, Tamerlan, was killed after the shootout. 
 
 Tsarnaev has been charged with federal crimes including conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, and Attorney General Eric Holder could decide to seek the death penalty. 
 
 Tsarnaev has told investigators that he and his brother acted alone when they built and detonated two pressure-cooker bombs near the finish line of the marathon. Three people were killed in the attack and more than 200 injured. 
 
 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that the brothers were motivated by a desire to defend Islam after the American-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. 
 
 In prison, experts have said, Tsarnaev will probably be subject to special administrative measures that could sharply curtail his contact with fellow prisoners and the outside world. Stephen Huggard, a former Boston federal prosecutor who worked on the Sept. 11 investigation, said Tsarnaev’s parents, who are in Russia and have insisted he’s being framed, may not be allowed to visit. 
 
 At a hospital court room hearing earlier this week, Tsarnaev showed little sign of fear or remorse and his heart monitor didn’t register a blip when he was told he could be could be facing the death penalty, according to a source familiar with the events inside the room when he was read his rights. 
 
 The mother of the Tsarnaev brothers insisted Thursday that her sons are not responsible for the attack and said she did not see any aggression in the older brother, even when the FBI questioned him two years ago. 
 
 Speaking to reporters in Russia, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva also said the elder son, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, came to Russia for six months last year to attend a family wedding, visit relatives and later renew his Kyrgyzstan passport. 
 
 “America took my kids away from me,” she said. “I’m sure my kids were not involved in anything.” 
 
 U.S. investigators have said they want to know more about why Tamerlan Tsarnaev was in Russia. When he returned to the United States in July, he began posting radical Islamic videos to his YouTube account. 
 
 Matthew DeLuca of NBC News contributed to this report. 
 
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 11:55 a.m. (EDT) 
 
 Several victims of the Boston Marathon attack have chastised bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) for coming to the United States as an immigrant, enjoying the benefits of living here and then attacking U.S. citizens. 
 
 An older sister of a slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer addressed Tsarnaev on Wednesday during his sentencing hearing. He is due to be formally sentenced to death by a judge. 
 
 Jennifer Rogers called Tsarnaev a "leech abusing the privilege of American freedom." She says Tsarnaev "spit in the face of the American dream." 
 
 Rogers' brother, Sean Collier, was fatally shot by the Tsarnaev brothers as authorities closed in on them three days after the bombings. 
 
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 11:35 a.m. (EDT) 
 
 Several victims of the Boston Marathon attack who have chosen to speak at the bomber's sentencing hearing are describing psychological issues invisible to the world but all too real and debilitating to them. 
 
 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) is scheduled to be formally sentenced Wednesday to death. But before that, survivors and loved ones of the victims are given a chance to address him. 
 
 A 45-year-old family physician from Birmingham, Alabama, says he finished running his first Boston Marathon seconds before the first bomb exploded. Scott Weisberg says he suffered hearing loss and a traumatic brain injury. 
 
 He says his once-successful medical practice is now struggling and he is getting divorced because his spouse can't understand the trauma he experienced. 
 
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 11:10 a.m. (EDT) 
 
 A survivor of the Boston Marathon attack says he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder but is grateful he found a way to forgive bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv). 
 
 Henry Borgard was a 21-year-old Suffolk University student walking to his dorm when he heard the explosions. 
 
 He said at Tsarnaev's sentencing hearing Wednesday that he suffered minor physical injuries but now has severe anxiety and nightmares and has been diagnosed with PTSD. 
 
 Borgard says, "I know how fear feels. I know how it feels when it courses through your veins and your blood gets cold." 
 
 He says he is grateful to be alive and to be recovering from his psychological injuries. 
 
 But Borgard says he is most grateful that he was able to forgive Tsarnaev despite everything he did. 
 
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 10:25 a.m. (EDT) 
 
 The father of the youngest person killed in the Boston Marathon bombing says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) could have chosen not to place his bomb behind a group of children. 
 
 Bill Richard is the father of 8-year-old Martin Richard, who was one of three people killed at the 2013 marathon. He addressed Tsarnaev on Wednesday as his wife, Denise, stood behind him. 
 
 Richard says Tsarnaev could have changed his mind that morning and "walked away with a minimal sense of humanity." 
 
 But, Richard says, Tsarnaev "chose to accompany his brother and participate in this hate." 
 
 Richard says his family has chosen love, kindness and peace. He says: "That is what makes us different than him." 
 
 The Richards' young daughter, Jane, also lost a leg in the bombing. 
 
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 10:15 a.m. (EDT) 
 
 The best friend of a woman killed at the 2013 Boston Marathon has urged bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) to show remorse to discourage other jihadists from killing people in similar attacks. 
 
 Karen Rand McWatters is a friend of Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old who was one of three people killed in the bombings. 
 
 McWatters says: "You can save them from these cowardly acts if you really have an ounce of regret or remorse." 
 
 McWatters was with Campbell at the marathon and lost a leg in the explosions. 
 
 She told Tsarnaev that he "stood there watching children play and still chose to leave his weapon of mass destruction behind those children as he walked away." 
 
 She says he must not have a soul to be able to do something like that. 
 
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 10 a.m. (EDT) 
 
 The mother of a woman killed in the Boston Marathon attack has told bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) that what he did was "disgusting." 
 
 Patricia Campbell was the first person to give a victim impact statement Wednesday at Tsarnaev's formal sentencing. She is the mother of Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager from Medford, Massachusetts, who was one of three people killed in the bombings. 
 
 Patricia Campbell looked across the room at Tsarnaev and spoke directly to him. He was seated about 20 feet away and looked down as she spoke. 
 
 She says: "What you did to my daughter is disgusting." She also said she thinks the jury did the right thing by sentencing him to death. 
 
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 9:45 a.m. (EDT) 
 
 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) has entered the courtroom ahead of a hearing where he will formally be sentenced to death. 
 
 The 21-year-old Tsarnaev wore a dark sports jacket with a collared shirt and no tie. His beard is fuller than the goatee he sported during the trial. He appeared impassive as he chatted with his lawyers. 
 
 The Boston police commissioner and the parents of the youngest bombing victim were also in the courtroom Wednesday. 
 
 Three people died and more than 260 others were injured when twin bombs exploded at the finish line of the 2013 marathon. 
 
 In May, a federal jury condemned Tsarnaev to die for the bombings.
– Boston is now rid of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who has been transferred to a federal prison medical facility about 40 miles west of the city. "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been transported from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is now confined at the Bureau of Prisons facility FMC Devens at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts," says an official. The amount of time he spends at the local facility hinges on whether prosecutors decide to pursue execution, NBC News notes. Attorney General Eric Holder will ultimately make the call, but he likely won't do so for several months. Meanwhile, Tsarnaev's parents have left their home in Dagestan—but they're not headed to the US, at least for now. Instead, they're going elsewhere in Russia, CNN reports. Zubeidat Tsarnaeva cites her husband's health; she called him an ambulance yesterday, but gave no details on his condition. (Meanwhile, the Tsarnaevs' carjacking victim tells his story.)