Federal Prisons News

U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that a 35-year-old Longview man has pleaded guilty to federal drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas.

A Dallas man has been sentenced to 3 years and six months in federal prison after prosecutors say he used a toy gun to rob a Texas bank.

Four men who pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in a plot to kidnap the wives of wealthy Roanoke-area men and hold them for ransom are going to prison.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A former worker at an Illinois federal lockup is now headed to federal prison for lying to investigators about a behind-bars tobacco-dealing operation that earned him $35,000. In addition to six months in prison, 45-five-year-old Kenneth White of Centralia also was ordered Friday in East St.

Two men who pleaded guilty earlier this year to smuggling drugs into South Florida from the Bahamas have been sentenced.

Three central Indiana men have been sentenced to federal prison after they pleaded guilty to burning a cross in the yard of a black family's home in 2008.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A southern Illinois man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after admitting he robbed a bank this summer.

A Thousand Oaks man was sentenced Thursday in Los Angeles to nearly eight years in federal prison for running an identity theft ring that used mail drops in Beverly Hills to collect more than $1 million in loot from stolen credit cards and checks.

A Steven H. Ballard, 53, of McDonough, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Thomas W. Thrash Jr.

The county has reached a tentative agreement to resume purchasing water from Salem, three years following an acrimonious split over the prison water contract.

A northern Arizona resident has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for a fatal crash on the Navajo Nation just over a year ago.

Federal prosecutors are touting what they claim is the dismantling of a network of crystal methamphetamine traffickers in northwest Iowa.

A Fallbrook couple who admitted being part of smuggling organization that brought more than 100 illegal immigrants into the United States from Mexico were sentenced today to federal prison terms.

A Virginia doctor who wrote tens of thousands of prescriptions for muscle relaxants and other drugs over the Internet without meeting or examining the patients has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.

Online auction house eBay has removed items that were posted for sale by anti-abortion activists trying to raise money for defence of a man accused of killing a Kansas abortion provider, the company said Monday.

State parole officials who oversaw the man now charged with Jaycee Dugard's abduction and years-long sexual bondage repeatedly missed chances to discover Jaycee and her girls, even failing to look into a 12-year-old girl a parole agent found during a visit to Phillip Garrido's home near Antioch, according to a scathing report released today by a ...

A man who bilked South Los Angeles churchgoers out of $44 million in an insurance scam has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.

Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy was a free man Wednesday after serving most of a 15-month sentence in a gambling scandal.

A California man has been sentenced to almost four years in prison for drug trafficking after a drug-sniffing dog led investigators to a bundle of mailed cash that smelled of marijuana.

Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept.