Federal Prisons News

In 2008, as George W. Bush tried to gift the energy and mining industries thousands of acres of pristine Utah wilderness via a widely disputed federal auction, college student Tim DeChristopher decided to monkey-wrench the process.

A restaurant owner who got snagged in a gambling probe that grew out of the Brett Parker double murder investigation took the stand, as the trial entered its third week.

The key witness in the trial of the man convicted of killing former intern Chandra Levy had a previously undisclosed history as a government snitch, a court hearing revealed Tuesday.

BobbyLee Worm was held at the Fraser Valley Institution for Women, a multi-level federal prison in Abbotsford, B.C., designed to hold 86 women.

A 55-year-old Tyler, Texas, building contractor has been sentenced for federal arson related charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.

The Justice Department says two more Japanese executives at a major auto supplier have agreed to plead guilty and serve time in prison as part of a wide-ranging three-year FBI investigation into auto parts price fixing.

A New Iberia woman was sentenced Monday to 26 months in federal prison and for filing false claims of more than $12 million with the IRS and receiving tax refunds she was not owed.

Clarksburg, Harrison County , West Virginia The mother of a missing West Virginia girl won't be relocated to serve supervised release for welfare fraud.

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.