Federal Prison Updates
Policy changes, sentence-calculation guidance, First Step Act issues, and practical information for families and lawyers.
PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Larry Dempsey, 53, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 120 months and one day…
Continue ReadingSpokane, Washington – First Assistant United States Attorney Pete Serrano announced that on October 5, 2026, United States District Judge Rebecca L. Pennell sentenced…
Continue ReadingLAFAYETTE – On September 29, 2026, United States District Judge David C. Joseph sentenced Anthony Smith, 54, of Pensacola, Florida, to 72 months in…
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department’s Energy and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) yesterday filed motions for summary judgment in four cases defending challenges to a rule rescinding…
Continue ReadingMUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Steven Ray Quigley, a/k/a Steven Woods, age 39,…
Continue ReadingAuthorities have arrested 19 people following a long-term investigation into an alleged drug trafficking organization operating in Alice Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Continue ReadingBOSTON – Prefere Melamines LLC (Prefere), a company headquartered in Springfield, Mass., has agreed to pay $1,247,744 to resolve allegations that it violated the…
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – TYRON RAINEY (“RAINEY”) (36 years old) from Thibodaux, La. was sentenced on October 1, 2026 to serve a total of 180…
Continue ReadingUnited States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court, has sentenced a Starkville, Mississippi, man convicted of Possession of…
Continue ReadingTallahassee, Florida – Maria Ysabel Mendoza, 34, of Ontario, California, and Daniel Lomeli Hernandez, 32, of Las Vegas, Nevada, were each sentenced to 30…
Continue ReadingA federal jury convicted Charles Arellano, of El Paso, for three counts related to fentanyl trafficking Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Continue ReadingMental health counselor Christopher Neal Mishik, 36, of Herndon, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for exploiting children online. Source: U.S. Department of…
Continue ReadingMUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Travon Maurice Lawrence, age 21, of Okmulgee, Oklahoma,…
Continue ReadingUnited States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, United States District Court, has sentenced a Sioux Falls, South Dakota,…
Continue ReadingUnited States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court has sentenced a Sioux Falls, SD, man convicted of…
Continue ReadingA federal jury has convicted a Lubbock woman of transporting an illegal alien through South Texas, while her mother previously pleaded guilty to the…
Continue ReadingYakima, Washington — First Assistant United States Attorney Pete Serrano announced that on September 30, 2026, Hugo Enrique Davadi (a/k/a “Flako”), age 38, was…
Continue ReadingTallahassee, Florida – Marlo G. Davis, 47, of Tallahassee, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base,…
Continue ReadingMUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Kenneth Glenn McCarroll, age 46, of McAlester, Oklahoma,…
Continue ReadingA federal jury has convicted a former medical doctor with naturalization fraud for providing false answers on a U.S. citizenship application and during an…
Continue ReadingBrad D. Schimel, First Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on October 6, 2026, United States District Judge Brett…
Continue ReadingTwo South Carolina men have admitted to trafficking large quantities of fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine in Ohio County, U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey announced…
Continue ReadingA 35-year-old Houston resident will serve federal prison time for illegally transmitting proceeds from an email scam Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Continue ReadingA federal jury in St. Paul convicted a Minnesota woman yesterday for executing a scheme to steal $3.6 million from the now-defunct Minnesota Medicaid…
Continue ReadingEdenilson Alexander Castaneda-Del Valle, age 19, of El Salvador, who is present in the United States without authorization, pleaded guilty before United States District…
Continue ReadingTampa, Florida – A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Arthur Williams (34), a/k/a “Snow,” a/k/a “Art,” and Timothy Colon (42), both…
Continue ReadingMUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Guadalupe Mancera-Cabello, a/k/a Guadalupe Mancera Cabello, a/k/a Guadalupe…
Continue ReadingPensacola, Florida – Kawana D. Gamble, 46, of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess…
Continue ReadingCHARLOTTE, N.C. – Anthony Eliu Acevedo, 27, of Charlotte, was sentenced yesterday to 8 ½ years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised…
Continue ReadingSalvadoran national Marvin Alberto Escobar, 44, was sentenced today to three years in prison for illegally reentering the United States after a felony conviction…
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