A federal judge on Wednesday found the extreme heat in Texas prisons is "plainly unconstitutional," but declined to order the state to immediately start installing air conditioning, which could ...

Yet that is what the federal government is doing at the Devens prison, part of a nationwide budget cut. Federal Medical Center Devens, in Ayer, is one of only seven prisons in the country equipped ...

An Austin federal judge ruled Wednesday evening that sweltering heat in Texas prison cells is likely violating inmates’ constitutional rights, but he declined to order the state's prison system ...

A man who escaped from the Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution in 2022 was sentenced Monday to an additional two years in prison. Andrew Kristovich, 41, was serving a five-year sentence for ...

But the 33-year-old is now being housed at the FTC Oklahoma City — a transfer facility for inmates moving cross-country, federal prison records showed Thursday. Convicted crypto fraudster Sam ...

former Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu was sentenced Friday to two months in federal prison for his role in an Orange County corruption scandal linked to the sale of Angel Stadium. Sidhu, 67 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A Columbia man was sentenced to over three years in federal prison for his role in a drug smuggling conspiracy. Officials with the Department of Justice (DOJ) said 37-year ...

have been filed this session that would require state prisons to be equipped with air conditioning, but none of the bills have received a hearing yet. “This is a federal judge saying Texas is ...

The Bureau of Prisons wants him to serve his sentence at a federal prison rather than MDC, which is traditionally more of a way station for defendants awaiting trial. In November 2022, Bankman ...

At least half of US states now outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns In Louisiana, a federal judge last year ordered prison officials to increase shaded areas, schedule additional ...

Meanwhile, Ibarra's older brother, 29-year-old Diego Ibarra — who has ties to the Venezuelan gang TdA — was sentenced to serve four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to presenting ...