Symptoms include: Pain and tenderness in the ball of the foot and the big toe; Swelling and bruising of the ball of the foot and the big toe; Inability to bear weight on the ball of the injured foot; Inability to push off on the big toe; Reduced range of motion in the big toe.
Lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin, who represents Madoff, asked for a 12-year sentence. In a letter to the judge, Sorkin explained that his 71-year-old client has an approximate life expectancy of 13 years and isn't likely to outlive the requested sentence by more than a year.
If Madoff serves 20 years in prison (the likely amount given that he is already 70 years old) and if he were imprisoned in Louisiana instead of New York, taxpayers would save approximately $583,860. Political scientists may argue that prison is a cost society agrees to pay for from the general taxation pot.