Federal Prisons News

BOISE, Idaho - A 62-year-old Las Vegas man has been sentenced to 121 2 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to his role in a drug and money laundering conspiracies.

In this Nov. 13, 2005, photo maintenance employees replace a burned out light in a hallway inside the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Ill.

It's the Fourth of July in America, and a U.S. citizen sits in solitary confinement in New York - and he hasn't even been convicted of a crime.

A Washington, D.C. woman is facing charges after allegedly trying to deliver heroin to an inmate at the Hazelton Federal Prison, in Preston County.

A Bigfork man, who already faces 110 years in federal prison for sex crimes, has pleaded guilty to molesting two young sisters in Flathead County.

Evelyn James, 54, of Tuba City, Arizona and a Tribal Council member of the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe in Arizona, pleaded guilty today to False Statements, Theft from a Tribal Government Receiving Federal Funds and Money Laundering.

Alfonso Valdez-Cota, 24, and Kaven Alfonso Chavez-Aguirre, 25, both citizens of Mexico, were sentenced on June 29, 2009, by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to five years in federal prison after both defendants pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Possess With the Intent to Distribute Heroin.

A federal judge in Los Angeles tentatively decided today to reverse a jury's verdicts and acquit a Missouri woman who had been convicted of computer fraud charges stemming from an Internet hoax that prompted a teenage girl to commit suicide.

A Richmond man was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison for drug possession and hitting a police informant during a drug deal.

United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated that Eric Robinson, age 19 and Joshua Stokes, age 23, both of North Charleston, were sentenced today in federal court for armed bank robbery and firearms charges.

A former owner of a Cedar Falls restaurant has pleaded guilty to failing to appear for sentencing on illegal immigration charges.

It's not clear where Ruth Madoff will live after having her Manhattan penthouse seized.

A former Oklahoma City doctor has been sentenced to nine years and one month in federal prison for illegally distributing prescription drugs.

A former Royse City minister was sentenced Monday to 17 years in federal prison after pleading guilty in March to possessing and sending child pornography from his computer to others via the Internet.

United Nations gang leader and convicted international drug smuggler Clay Roueche was whisked away from a Washington state jail this month because he posed a risk to the "orderly running" of the institution, a judge said.

" A 20-year-old Overland Park man will spend the next decade plus in federal prison with no possibility for parole.

The Sheriff's Department in Encinitas, a town outside of San Diego, reportedly responded to a June 26 noise complaint regarding a political fundraiser attended by middle-aged Democrats, many of them women, and hosted by a lesbian couple, by dispatching more than a half-dozen deputies, one of whom allegedly proceeded to throw the 60-year-old hostess ...

A 31-year-old Connecticut man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for a marijuana growing operation in Bolton.

A former South Jersey man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for a fraud that took more than $6 million from area investors.

"Let him rot in jail." Such was the reaction from La Quinta resident Sandy Blake on Monday to the sentencing of Bernard Madoff.