Inmate, Craig Shults Sentenced to 6 Years for Making Threats to Harm Federal Judge
U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Craig Shults, 52, of Huntington Beach, today to six years in prison for threatening to harm a federal judge, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. Shults More...
Inmate, Mason Stickney Pleads Guilty to Murder for Hire Scheme
An inmate pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a murder-for-hire scheme. Mason Stickney, 21, of Byfield, pleaded guilty to three counts of using a facility of interstate commerce in More...
Inmate, Jose Juarez-Diaz in Clearfield County Charged with Illegally Possessing Marijuana
An inmate at Moshannon Valley Correctional Center in Philipsburg, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of a prohibited object in prison, United States Attorney Scott W. More...
Six federal inmates charged with lewdly exposing themselves to prison staff
Six federal inmates face having more time added to their prison sentences after lewdly exposing themselves to prison staff. The inmates, serving federal prison sentences at Federal Correctional Institution Jesup More...
SCDC Prisoner, Michael Young Sentenced for Role in Dark Web Mail Bomb Plot
United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that Michael James Young Jr., 32, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to over 43 years in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to purchase a mail More...
Inmate, Roger Godwin Sentenced to 4 Years for Threats to Obama
Today, Roger Dale Godwin, 40, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Raner Collins to 48 months in the Bureau of Prisons followed by three years of supervised release. Godwin had previously pleaded guilty to making More...
Marion Prison Inmate, Raydale Mitchell Pleads Guilty to Possessing Marijuana
Raydale R. Mitchell, 48, currently a Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to possessing marijuana in November 2017 in the United States Penitentiary at Marion, More...
Former Correctional Officer, Adrian Almordovar Charged with Assaulting Inmate
A former correctional officer at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of beating a handcuffed and shackled inmate, and conspiring with other More...
Federal Inmate, Charles Bush sentenced to additional 10 Years for Child Pornography
A Tennessee man was sentenced to an additional ten years in prison in connection with a child pornography ring at Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix that was operated by inmates who were imprisoned for related More...
Leavenworth inmate Richard James gets more time for attacking prison guard Joe Wilson
public domain pic from May 4 1916 A former Leavenworth inmate was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison for attacking a Leavenworth prison guard with a pair of scissors, said U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. More...
State Department issues statement on Cuban democratic activist Tomas Nunez Magdariaga, his hunger strike
The United States is gravely concerned about the physical health of Cuban democratic activist Tomas Nunez Magdariaga, who has been on a hunger strike for more than 50 days in protest against his wrongful imprisonment. More...
Illinois prisoner Kurt Johnson convicted for putting warden, another prisoner in $20 billion debt using bankruptcy laws
A federal inmate housed within the Communications Management Unit (CMU) at the U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois has been found guilty of filing fictitious involuntary bankruptcy petitions against federal prison More...
Four more indicted for smuggling pills into prison: inmates, Chad Connors, William Guillemette, wife Lisa Guillemette and his mom Margaret Guillemette
Two MCI-Cedar Junction inmates, and the wife and mother of one of the inmates, were charged in federal court in Boston in connection with smuggling drugs into the facility. Chad Connors, 42, and William Guillemette, More...
Criminal lawyer Joseph Tully tops Amazon charts with ‘California State of Collusion’
California’s best criminal lawyer, Joseph Tully, adds Best Selling Author to his legal bio with his book California – State of Collusion (Sutton Hart Press) hitting #1 on Amazon in its category the More...
First trailer for ‘Goosebumps 2: Happy Halloween’ reveals the monsters, Slappy’s return but no Jack Black
Fans finally get the official look at the Goosebumps sequel, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, which showcases Halloween coming to alive. The new film, also based on R.L. Stine’s series of books, finally sets More...
South Carolina prison chaplains excused from carrying OC spray
The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has now granted religious accommodation to prison chaplains at various federal correctional institutions who were being punished for not carrying oleoresin capsicum (OC) spray as a potential More...
New ‘Blade Runner 2049’ photos released, story sounds like global warming theme
Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 arrives this fall and was featured with San Diego Comic Con panel and was previewed in Entertainment Weekly’s Comic Con issue with a new set of cool photos. The long-awaited sequel More...
Jill Halliburton Su murder case: Dayonte Resiles escaped Florida courtroom, armed and dangerous
A Florida murder suspect who escaped from a courtroom is believed to be armed as a manhunt spreads across Broward County. Identified as Dayonte Resiles, 21, escaped Friday from the Broward County Courthouse. He More...
Underwear shortage in Illinois prisons could lead to lawsuit
“US inmates ‘forced to wear dirty underwear” was the headline five years this month as a clothing shortage forced inmates in at least one Illinois prison to wear the same underwear several days More...
Supreme Court orders California to release convicts to afford health care for those remaining prisoners
Five years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to cut the prison population, California holds 136,000 inmates as of 2014 per CDCR report. Of the 2013-2014 budget, 7% was spent on corrections and was set to rise More...
