Federal Prison Updates
Policy changes, sentence-calculation guidance, First Step Act issues, and practical information for families and lawyers.
A Glendale man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to steal approximately 30 United States Postal Service (USPS) mail carrier vehicles as well as the…
Continue ReadingFederal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas filed 500 new immigration and immigration-related criminal cases from August 28 through September 10 Source: U.S.…
Continue ReadingScott Devries, 57, from Hardy, Iowa, was sentenced in federal court in Sioux City on September 11, 2026, to 90 months’ imprisonment. Devries pled…
Continue ReadingPHOENIX, Ariz. – During the week of enforcement operations from Sep. 5 through Sep. 11, 2026, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of…
Continue ReadingJames David Johnson, 58, of Santee, California, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for distributing images…
Continue ReadingMaurilio Lazcano-Vargas, age 40, of Mexico, who is present in the United States without authorization, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief Judge Shelly D. Dick…
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS- Jonathan Andrew Jones, 31, of Lafayette, has petitioned to plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud for a $325,000 COVID-19 relief fraud…
Continue ReadingMUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Adrian Alcantar-Sanchez, a/k/a Pedro Ruiz-Betancur, age 46, a…
Continue ReadingIn the first-ever case before the United States Alien Terrorist Removal Court (ATRC), Nazira Haji Zada, 47, an Afghan national previously residing in Fort…
Continue ReadingA four-times deported illegal alien from Mexico was sentenced today to 135 months in prison for knowingly selling more than pound quantities of fentanyl…
Continue ReadingA Kansas man was sentenced to 168 months in prison after law enforcement officers found him with a distribution amount of methamphetamine. Source: U.S.…
Continue ReadingHarlyn Cody Geronimo and Raymond Shaun Chee pleaded guilty to federal assault charges stemming from an unprovoked attack that left a victim with serious…
Continue ReadingJoseph Randall Summerlin, 52, of Billings, Montana, was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for distribution of…
Continue ReadingGulfport, MS – A Jackson County, Mississippi man was sentenced on September 9, 2026, to 15 years in prison, the maximum amount of prison…
Continue ReadingA 54-year-old man employed at a northern Ohio dairy was sentenced after he admitted responsibility for environmental pollutants that were dumped into a waterway.…
Continue ReadingA Texas man was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in prison for promoting an abusive tax shelter to business owners around the country. Source:…
Continue ReadingHagåtña, Guam – United States Attorney Shawn N. Anderson, serving the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announces the results of Operation…
Continue ReadingLEXINGTON, Ky. – A Louisville, Ky., man, Timothy Acker, 57, was sentenced on Thursday to 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell…
Continue ReadingPITTSBURGH, Pa. – A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months of imprisonment on his conviction of possessing…
Continue ReadingBOSTON – An alleged member of the Lawrence Chapter of the Trinitarios has been arrested and charged in connection with a years-long conspiracy to…
Continue ReadingCINCINNATI – Federal agents arrested a Cincinnati man this morning who allegedly possessed firearms connected to at least two homicides and three total shootings.…
Continue ReadingBOSTON – A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).Jorge Junior Alvarez Rodriguez,…
Continue ReadingMUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Juan Cervantes Rodriguez, a/k/a Arellano Antonio Gomez, a/k/a…
Continue ReadingEarlier today, a federal jury in Central Islip convicted Luann Middleton, a former United States Postal Service (USPS) employee, of wire fraud in connection…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia observed the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the…
Continue ReadingA Delaware Army Reservist was arrested and made his initial appearance in federal court on September 9, 2026, on charges of production of child…
Continue ReadingRoy Dewayne Reed, 46, of Springfield, Mo., was sentenced in federal court yesterday for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a…
Continue ReadingA man who possessed firearms illegally was sentenced September 9, 2026, to more than 4 years in federal prison.Joshua Layne Kelly, age 25, from…
Continue ReadingA man who escaped custody and failed to register as a sex offender pled guilty on September 10, 2026, in federal court in Sioux…
Continue ReadingMONROE – On September 10, 2026, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Randy Allen Powell, 46, of Downsville, with Receipt of Child…
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