Federal Prison Updates
Policy changes, sentence-calculation guidance, First Step Act issues, and practical information for families and lawyers.
DAVENPORT, Iowa – Rock Island men were sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, distribution of a controlled substance, possession with…
Continue ReadingINDIANAPOLIS- A former United States Postal Service letter carrier, Destinee Ruffin, 29, of Indianapolis, has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $34 million conspiracy to…
Continue ReadingGreenbelt, Maryland – A federal grand jury indicted a Maryland man, today, in connection with a COVID-19 healthcare fraud scam. Marc Aaron Potash, 57,…
Continue ReadingTallahassee, Florida – Tedrick Childs, 46, of Tallahassee, Florida, has been sentenced to 21 years and six months in federal prison after pleading guilty to…
Continue ReadingBOSTON – A Dominican national unlawfully residing in Worcester has been indicted by a federal grand jury for illegally reentering the United States after…
Continue ReadingJacksonville, Florida – A federal jury has found Treashonna P. Graham (42, Lake City) guilty of all charges in a 13-count indictment, including conspiracy…
Continue ReadingAn Oklahoma business owner and chiropractor was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison for his role in a years-long scheme that attempted to…
Continue ReadingPROVIDENCE – A former employee of Santander Bank has been sentenced in federal court for stealing more than $125,000 from the bank account of…
Continue ReadingAMAX Engineering Corporation, an AI data center engineering firm, has agreed to pay $2.48 million to resolve allegations that the company violated the False…
Continue ReadingANCHORAGE, Alaska – A former Anchorage defense attorney was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for possessing fentanyl and methamphetamine with the intent…
Continue ReadingA Bend, Oregon, man was sentenced to federal prison today for robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence. Source: U.S.…
Continue ReadingASHEVILLE, N.C. – Zyon Zashawn Jacobs, 21, of Asheville, was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a…
Continue ReadingA federal grand jury in Wichita returned a superseding indictment charging a Kansas man with methamphetamine trafficking and firearms offenses. Source: U.S. Department of…
Continue ReadingMarcos L. Fernandez, 39, of Kansas City, Mo., was sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing a firearm. Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Continue ReadingA Hudson County woman, who is a naturalized citizen who immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic, was charged with illegally voting…
Continue ReadingUnited States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Eric C. Schulte has sentenced a Fort Thompson woman and a Lower Brule…
Continue ReadingMINNEAPOLIS – United States Attorney Daniel N. Rosen announced that Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, 18, of Richfield, Minnesota, was charged today by complaint with one…
Continue ReadingTallahassee, Florida – J’Shawn Tikariyon Walker, 21, of Tallahassee, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal court to illegal possession of a machinegun and possession of a…
Continue ReadingTwo websites were seized as part of a coordinated law enforcement action taken against the dissemination of child sexual abuse material and the non-consensual…
Continue ReadingOtis Frazier pleaded guilty in two separate cases. Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Continue ReadingGarry Haggins, Jr., a convicted drug dealer who served more than a decade in federal prison, was arraigned earlier today on new charges related…
Continue ReadingAn Afghan citizen residing in Fort Worth pleaded guilty Oct. 6 to transmitting a threatening communication in interstate commerce after threatening to conduct a…
Continue ReadingA podiatrist formerly based in New York was sentenced today for his role in a health care fraud scheme targeting Amtrak’s health care plan,…
Continue ReadingThe former board chairman and co-owner of Nodus International Bank (Nodus Bank), a Puerto Rican International Banking Entity, was sentenced today to 62 months…
Continue ReadingUnited States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today that U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier has sentenced a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to…
Continue ReadingU.S. District Judge Stacey D. Neumann sentenced Cody Smith, 25, to two years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. …
Continue ReadingNEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – MIGUEL SANTOS-MEZA (“SANTOS-MEZA”), age 50, a Honduran national, was indicted on October 2, 2026, for illegal reentry of a removed…
Continue ReadingBaltimore, Maryland – A Washington, DC, man received a federal-prison term, today, in connection with a conspiracy to commit burglaries of multiple pharmacies spanning…
Continue ReadingRALEIGH, N.C. – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina proudly announces that the Department of Justice distributed over…
Continue ReadingMUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Dillon Lee Vail, age 33, entered a guilty…
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