Federal Prison Updates
Policy changes, sentence-calculation guidance, First Step Act issues, and practical information for families and lawyers.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Texas man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court here today to exploitation crimes related to traveling to Ohio to have…
Continue ReadingMONTGOMERY, Ala. – On February 4, 2026, Ladarius Lamar Knight, 25, of Montgomery, Alabama, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a…
Continue ReadingBOSTON – A Brazilian national unlawfully residing in Fall River, Mass. pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to unlawfully reentering the United…
Continue ReadingBOSTON – QP Holdings, LLC, an Arkansas company, and its affiliates, River Bend, Industries, LLC, Master Molded Products, LLC and 3D Plastics, LLC, have…
Continue ReadingBOSTON – John Oliveira & Sons Stamp Concrete, Inc., a corporation doing business in East Freetown, Mass. pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in…
Continue ReadingJohn Calvin Harris, 29, a convicted felon residing in the District of Columbia, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to 36 months in…
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH, Pa. – A resident of Arnold, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 156 months of incarceration, to be followed by five…
Continue ReadingSpokane, Washington – First Assistant Pete Serrano announced that on January 14, 2026, United States District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice, sentenced Timothy Michael…
Continue ReadingA San Fernando Valley man was sentenced today to 200 months in federal prison for breaking into an elderly man’s home, later stealing his…
Continue ReadingA New Jersey woman was charged by indictment with five counts of wire fraud for fraudulently obtaining tens of thousands of dollars in unemployment…
Continue ReadingSharka Corbin of Memphis, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday to over ten years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing a…
Continue ReadingA Folsom man, Paul Richards, 51, was arrested today after a federal grand jury indicted him for receiving child sexual abuse material. Source: U.S.…
Continue ReadingNASHVILLE –Justin Deshun Stiger, 33, of Memphis, Tennessee, was convicted this week of making threats to murder two Memphis federal prosecutors and a Memphis…
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. – A Federal Judge sentenced Marcus Terrell Burney, 44, to 4.8 years in federal prison for possession of a gun by a…
Continue ReadingHUNTSVILLE, Ala. – A federal grand jury has indicted two individuals in a scheme to “straw purchase” firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona. A…
Continue ReadingUnited States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Eric C. Schulte, has sentenced a man from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, convicted…
Continue ReadingFederal grand juries returned indictments charging four people from Honduras and one from Mexico with violating immigration laws. These are separate cases and not related. …
Continue ReadingAUGUSTA, GA: A Columbia County, Georgia woman was sentenced to federal prison for using stolen and counterfeit business checks to commit Bank Fraud and…
Continue ReadingAs a result of an ongoing investigation into the criminal activities of a former U.S. Postal Service worker, a Summit County man now faces…
Continue ReadingTwo of five defendants in a Lubbock drug-trafficking ring were sentenced to 19 and 20 years in federal prison today for their roles in…
Continue ReadingBOSTON – A Rhode Island woman has been sentenced in federal court in Boston for her leading role in laundering hundreds of thousands of…
Continue ReadingRutland, Vermont – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont stated that on February 4, 2026, Joseph Llano, 26, of Springfield,…
Continue ReadingCOLUMBUS, Ohio – A federal jury found a Vinton County man guilty of receiving and possessing child pornography and AI-generated images of child sexual…
Continue ReadingCHARLESTON, W.Va. – James Richard Mathis, 30, of Detroit, Michigan, pleaded guilty on Thursday, February 5, 2026, to possession with intent to distribute 50…
Continue ReadingU.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Quiñones announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida collected $188,113,543 in criminal and…
Continue ReadingA federal grand jury in New Haven has returned a 45-count indictment charging AMITOJ KAPOOR, 29, and SIDDHARTH LILLANEY, 29, both of Glastonbury, with…
Continue ReadingALBANY, NEW YORK – A federal grand jury returned an indictment on January 28, 2026, charging an Indian national for his role in a…
Continue ReadingBOSTON – A Salvadoran national associated with the transnational criminal organization 18th Street Gang was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for selling…
Continue ReadingA Beaverton, Oregon, man was sentenced to federal prison yesterday for coercion and enticement of a minor after he directed the minor victim to…
Continue ReadingTampa, Florida – Jeremy Ryan (38, San Diego, CA) has indicted for cyberstalking by a federal grand jury. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty…
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