From Bernard Madoff to Martha Stewart, a look at the men and women forced from their corner offices and into a federal pen.

CEOs and other executives caught breaking today's laws can look forward to long court proceedings and longer sentences, every detail of which is broadcast to a public hungry to see their money, and freedom, taken away. And in a recession, there is an even greater hunger for white-collar offenders to be brought to justice. The biggest crook to fall so far: Bernard L. Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme may have taken in up to $65 billion from investors over two decades. He's just the latest in a long line of executives to end up in a federal penitentiary.