Federal Prisons News

A Las Vegas lawyer has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to failing to file federal income taxes over a 5-year period.

A judge in Laredo on Monday sentenced 48-year-old former U.S. Department of Agriculture worker Jose Homero Reyes and Arturo Ramirez, owner of Ambush Exterminators.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Jan. 6 in a tax evasion case involving a Mississippi doctor and his son.

Sen. Dick Durbin suggested earlier this week that he's thinking about asking a departing President Bush to commute the prison sentence of former Gov.

WALT DISNEY WORLD A St. Cloud man and his stepson will serve time in federal prison after lighting a pipe bomb in a trash can near Downtown Disney .

Reputed Mafia boss William 'Billy' D'Elia was sentenced Monday to nine years in federal prison, but he could reduce that sentence further if he provides 'substantial' assistance in the prosecution of Mount Airy ...

A Fort Totten man who seriously injured an infant by shaking him has been sent to a federal prison for three years.

ATLANTA, Nov. 25 DOJ-mortgage-fraud ATLANTA , Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mary Reagan , 41, of Alpharetta, Georgia , was sentenced today to serve almost five years in federal prison for her role in a ...

A 60-year-old man already sentenced to prison for making child pornography has been sentenced to 15 to 30 years in prison for the 1990 murder of his wife.

A Cedar Rapids woman who stole a U.S. Marshal's sport utility vehicle that contained a rifle has been sentenced to 10 months in federal prison.

A former city councilman who admitted to having a drug problem will be sentenced in February after pleading guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice in connection with his involvement in a large local cocaine ...

Prosecutors are seeking to arrest a man accused of impersonating a lawyer around the country, saying he violated the terms of his release while awaiting trial.

The conviction of Earnest Lynn Ross on federal firearms charges last week is the first step in protecting the public from a lifelong violent criminal, say local law-enforcement officers who have dealt with him ...

A member of the Aryan Warriors has been sentenced to 11 years in a federal prison for his role in a prison gang that dealt drugs, engaged in murder and corrupted jail guards.

A Sierra Vista woman has been sentenced to two months in federal prison and 12 months house arrest for her role in employing illegal immigrants at a construction company.

Published: Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 27, 2008 at 12:52 a.m. The pivotal figure in a major Illinois political corruption scandal asked Wednesday for a federal ...

A judge in Midland has ordered more than 12 years in federal prison for a self-described DJ convicted on cocaine smuggling charges.

A 49-year-old Missouri woman who prosecutors say drove a lovestruck 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona was acquitted on Wednesday of the most serious charges against her.

Edward M. Yarbrough, United States attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee, and Inspector in Charge Martin D. Phanco of the Atlanta Division of the United States Postal Inspection Service, announced that ...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - The alleged leader of a marijuana-growing ring in western Iowa has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.