Federal Prisons News

A former middle school teacher at Paradise Hills pleaded guilty May 16 receiving and possessing child pornography images on his computer.

Libertarian activist Adam Kokesh, before being released from Philadelphia's federal prison yesterday afternoon following his arrest by federal agents one week ago issued a statement from his cell calling for an "American Revolutionary Army to March on 50 State Capitols." "A new American revolution is long overdue," Kokesh declared in his jail cell ... (more)

A prominent member of a local prison-based gang called the Mexican Mafia has been sentenced to serve nearly 22 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy announced.

A 28-year-old Jicarilla Apache Nation woman was sentenced today in federal court to 20 months in federal prison for stabbing a Navajo woman at a party on the Mescalero Apache Reservation.

A 43-year-old Mexican citizen shot down this week at Southlake Town Square had represented members of a powerful drug cartel whose leaders were recently sentenced to U.S. federal prison, according to media reports on both sides of the border.

Nancy Gonzalez, a Federal Bureau of Prisons Corrections Officer who was charged with sexual abuse of an inmate, exits Federal Court with her attorney Anthony Ricco after being arraigned in Brooklyn.

A 44-year-old Fernley man has been sentenced to more than 22 years in federal prison for soliciting children for sex over the Internet.

The last of the Arellano Felix brothers who founded an infamous Mexican drug cartel has pleaded guilty in San Diego to helping ship hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the United States.

The last of the brothers accused of creating an infamous Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty Friday to helping send hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the United States, marking one of the final milestones in an investigation that began nearly two decades ago.

This image provided by Mexico's Federal Public Safety Department, SSP, shows wanted drug-kingpin Eduardo Arellano Felix, leader of the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel, who is expected to plead guilty to federal charges Friday, May 24, 2013.

A former Chicago police officer has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for his role in committing armed robberies for the Latin Kings street gang in northwestern Indiana and Chicago.

A bankruptcy lawyer who advertised heavily on Las Vegas television with the catch line, "That's what I do," has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for tax evasion and ordered to pay more than $750,000 in restitution and fines.

Savannah psychiatrist William George Ellien has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for prescribing highly addictive drugs to patients in exchange for sex, reports the Savannah Morning News.

Two men who tried to flee police during a traffic stop in Charleston have been sentenced to federal prison on heroin-related charges.

Three men have been sentenced to prison in a bribery case involving road and roofing contracts for a North Texas military installation.

More than 60% of men arrested in five U.S. cities used at least one illegal drug, but fewer than 15% received drug treatment, a government report found.

A former Lake Forest man who's been in custody since Nov. 2008 is finally headed to federal prison for swindling at least 20 victims out of about $1.6 million in an investment fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago.

A Shawano man who sold precious metals has been sentenced to four years in a federal prison for evading taxes.

A one-time county attorney from northeastern Kentucky has been disbarred because of his role in a vote buying scheme during the 2006 election.

As Detective Kenny Gavin drove up and down the streets of Portsmouth, each turn of the wheel seemed to spark a memory of his 23 years on the force.