Federal Prisons News

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.

Atlanta Police say they have solved cold cases for five different "maintenance man" rapes that happened between 1986 and 1987.

Tim Miles can't stop talking about his new recruit. This kid may not be the biggest in the Big Ten, but he's big enough.

A Central Florida woman was sentenced to two years in federal prison for embezzling nearly $600,000 from her employer and failing to pay taxes on that income.

Two of three people convicted of stealing more than 500 pounds of copper from a railroad signal system near Wells in 2011 have been sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison.

"We've taken another pedophile off the streets. He is now on his way to prison," U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today in the wake of a Kanawha County man's federal sentencing on child pornography charges.

Sgt. Jessie Metoyer said Juwan Matthews of Racine had been in federal prison in California stemming from drug-related charges when evidence tied him to the 2005 shootings in Racine.

A Southwest Florida pharmacy owner and his family member are accused of health care fraud.