Federal Prisons News

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 .

Some of the Amish sentenced in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio are upset with federal prison education requirements.

A California doctor has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for bilking her patients out of more than $1 million by promising that an herbal supplement could cure late-stage cancer and other diseases.

Inmates at the Riverside Correctional Facility in Philadelphia. The jail has one of the highest rates of inmate-on-inmate sexual victimization, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

A convicted drug-runner and unapologetic advocate of zoophilia - sex between animals and humans - was warned by a federal judge on Friday that he's flirting with violating the conditions of his prison release by having others post comments on the Internet on his behalf.

A jagged bolt of lightning slashed through the darkened afternoon sky, commanding the undivided attention of the trio huddled beside a grave.

A gang leader has been sentenced to serve more than 78 years in a federal prison for his role in three armed home invasion robberies in Nashville.

Inmate sues Taco Bell: Just over a year ago, Taco Bell created the widely popular Doritos Locos Tacos , which have shells made out of Doritos Chips.

Welch, McDowell County , West Virginia Authorities are investigating a suspicious package discovered at a federal prison in southern West Virginia.

The target of a series of 10 News Investigators stories will be spending the next five years in federal prison on drug and weapons charges.

A St. Paul man faces 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing a gun and methamphetamine as a repeat felon.

Kwame Kilpatrick took his fight for freedom to a federal appeals court Thursday, arguing that he is not a flight risk or a danger to the community and is vulnerable to a prison attack due to a bum knee.

Supporters of environmental activist Tim DeChristopher picket outside his criminal trial.

"I used to work as a clerk in the commissary, and now they have me taking care of the telephone and the computer systems," said Madoff, speaking by phone from a federal prison in North Carolina.