Federal Prison Updates
Policy changes, sentence-calculation guidance, First Step Act issues, and practical information for families and lawyers.
Mark Sigl, 63, of Antelope, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez for attempted coercion…
Continue ReadingJames Cargill, 44, of Vacaville, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute and one count of possession of…
Continue ReadingOKLAHOMA CITY – JOSE TRINIDAD PEREZ FRAIRE, 38, of Mexico, has been sentenced to serve 105 months in federal prison for conspiring to distribute…
Continue ReadingUnited States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Eric C. Schulte has sentenced a woman from St. Francis, South Dakota, convicted…
Continue ReadingDAYTON, Ohio – A federal grand jury has indicted four defendants for a federal crime related to the seizure of 119 kilograms of suspected…
Continue ReadingPaxful Holdings Inc., an online virtual currency trading platform, was sentenced yesterday to pay a criminal penalty of $4 million based on its ability…
Continue ReadingUnited States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, announced that a jury found LAMAR WILLIAMS, a/k/a “Black,” a/k/a “Little Black,”…
Continue ReadingTampa, Florida – Kevin Charles Luke (62, Tampa) has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Moody, Jr. to 24 months in federal prison for the disclosure…
Continue ReadingUnited States Attorney Kurt L. Wall announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Jostin Antonio Orellana-Romero, age 22, a citizen…
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. – Donald Renard Taylor, 50, of Dunbar, was sentenced today to nine years in prison, to be followed by three years of…
Continue ReadingTALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA – Trashad Laron Roberts, 35, of Tallahassee, Florida, was found guilty by a federal jury of escape from federal custody. Source: U.S. Department…
Continue ReadingHAMILTON CLARK SMITH, 61, of Milford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to 43 days of imprisonment, time…
Continue ReadingCINCINNATI – Two asphalt companies have agreed to pay $30 million total to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they submitted fraudulent test results…
Continue ReadingJavier Luis Arias-Zamudio, aka Jose Luis Cordova, 34, a Mexican national, pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally reentering the United States after…
Continue ReadingHONOLULU – United States Attorney Ken Sorenson announced that Devan Caulk, 21, of Honolulu, Hawaii, was sentenced today to fifteen years in federal prison…
Continue ReadingThe founder and executive chairman of a now-defunct beverage company was sentenced yesterday for lying to solicit investments. Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Continue ReadingThe United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia collected over $35 million in civil and criminal penalties and forfeited nearly $8…
Continue ReadingBOP Employee Development Manual Update 2022: Training Policy and Real-World Practice — Prison Law Firm explains what this BOP update may mean for release…
Continue ReadingBOP Employee Organizations Policy 2026: A Fresh Rule in a Changing Bureau — Prison Law Firm explains what this BOP update may mean for release, custody,…
Continue ReadingBOP Fund-Raising by Employees Policy 2025: Why Internal Ethics Rules Still Matter — Prison Law Firm explains what this BOP update may mean for release, cus…
Continue ReadingBaltimore, Maryland – A 32-year-old man pled guilty in federal court to child sexual abuse crimes. Daniel Lara-Salazar, charged with sexually exploiting a child, committed…
Continue ReadingA total of 363 cases have been filed related to immigration-related crimes from Jan. 30-Feb. 5 Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Continue ReadingST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge John A. Ross on Wednesday sentenced a man to 210 months in prison for child pornography offenses involving…
Continue ReadingNashville, TN – Justin Deshun Stiger, 33, of Memphis, Tennessee was convicted this week of making threats to murder two Memphis federal prosecutors and a…
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Maine: A Mexican national pleaded guilty on Thursday in U.S. District Court in Portland to illegally entering the U.S. after a prior removal.According to…
Continue ReadingZubayar Al-Bakoush, an armed coconspirator in the 2012 attack on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three…
Continue ReadingA Nigerian National was sentenced to more than eight years in prison for participating in a years-long conspiracy to defraud elderly and vulnerable Americans…
Continue ReadingAfter one day of trial testimony, Nora Baca pleaded guilty to methamphetamine trafficking. Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. – Antonio Shelby Jr., 33, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced on Thursday, February 5, 2026, to 12 years in prison, to be…
Continue ReadingA former Social Security employee has been ordered to federal prison for aggravated identity theft and conspiracy to steal government funds Source: U.S. Department…
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