Federal Prisons News

Robert Ehnow, 46, owner of L&N Industrial Tool and Supply, was sentenced to three years in federal prison.

Prosecutors say that under the terms of his plea agreement Monday, Jonathan Matthew Sandoval will be sentenced to 15 years in federal prison.

Three Ventura residents were sentenced to federal prison Monday for fraud that cost hundreds of investors across the U.S. more than $27 million, federal prosecutors said.

A man from McPherson County has been sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison for using a 9-year-old child to produce child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Monday in a news release.

Norman Wielsch arrives at Superior Court in Walnut Creek, Calif. Thursday April 21, 2011 for a CNET-related hearing.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - A former Birmingham Museum of Art guard, who once had child pornography shipped to his workplace , this afternoon was sentenced to more than eight years in federal prison.

Terry Lee Releford, who police were seeking in the the murder of his pregnant wife on Lovell Road on Sunday, has taken his own life.

Bernie Madoff used to live a life of luxury at the expense of many who lost their life's savings dealing with him.

A housekeeper has been sentenced to six years in federal prison in the theft of a Benjamin Franklin bust stolen in suburban Philadelphia and reportedly worth $3 million.

Dr. Christine Daniel has been found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for selling bogus cancer cures to dozens of victims prosecutors said were 'despicable, cruel and heinous.' A sketchy California doctor who duped patients out of $1.3million by selling them herbal remedies she said cured cancer has been convicted.

Ashley Smith is shown in this still image taken from a coroner's video. Federal correctional authorities are trying to stop public disclosure of videos and documents during a fight over the scope of an Ontario inquest into the prison death of a deeply troubled teen.

China Spring and Aurora Pines are camps for boys and girls, respectively. They primarily handle youths from the Carson City-Douglas County area and rural parts of Nevada.

African American males represent a disproportionate percentage of the American incarcerated population.

Watergate , June 17, 1972-August 8, 1974. Watergate was a simple matter. On June 17, 1972, five men where were caught during an attempted break-in at the Democratic Party Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. What brought down President Richard Nixon's presidency was the attempted cover-up of the events.

Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate people considered to be subversives, died in his sleep Friday while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander says the Tennessee Valley Authority will help keep a federal fish hatchery in East Tennessee stay open for at least three more years.

The state criminal case against three former executives of the defunct nonprofit Firm Build culminated Friday with the trio pleading no contest to felony charges of exposing high school students to cancer-causing asbestos.

In this Sept. 29, 2011 photo, Dr. Christine Daniel gives a flu shot to patient Amparo Villaluazo at Daniel's Sonrise Medical Clinic in Mission Hills.

By Sheila Reynolds - Surrey North Delta Leader Published: May 17, 2013 8:00 PM Updated: May 17, 2013 9:07 PM A former Tsawwassen resident who was a well-regarded dog show judge has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for molesting three children between 1969 and 1979.

A former megachurch preacher sentenced to 12 years in federal prison in March for carrying on a sexual relationship with a teenage member of his congregation was sued in Will County court .