Montgomery, Alabama – The Justice Department today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama, returned a four-count indictment charging former Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) Sergeant…
OKLAHOMA CITY – A federal jury in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, convicted a former Kay County Oklahoma supervisory corrections officer of violating the civil rights of three pretrial detainees held at…
Montgomery, Alabama – The Justice Department today announced that Ulysses Oliver Jr., 47, a former Alabama Department of Corrections Sergeant, was sentenced in federal court to 30 months of…
WILLIAMSPORT – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 29, 2022, federal inmates Ralph Hooper, age 43, and Jordan Reid, age 29,…
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Federal agents arrested a South African woman this morning at John Glenn International Airport on federal charges alleging she mailed large amounts of K2 and Suboxone via…
PORTLAND, Ore.—A federal indictment was unsealed today charging a former Oregon Department of Corrections employee with sexually assaulting a dozen female inmates while serving as a nurse at the Coffee…
TRENTON, N.J. – After New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy released thousands of state prison inmates through an early release program citing the COVID-19 pandemic, two New Jersey Assemblywomen are pleading…
TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy isn’t done emptying the state’s prisons yet. After releasing over 2,000 convicted criminals under his emergency pandemic release program, the governor is…
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Two New York State prison inmates pled guilty today to conspiring with others to defraud pandemic-related unemployment insurance programs administered by the New York State Department…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Four inmates at the Luna County Detention Center in Deming, New Mexico, have pleaded guilty in federal court to assault upon a person assisting federal officers involving…
NEWARK, N.J. – A former federal correctional officer was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for accepting approximately $50,000 in cash bribes in exchange for delivering contraband to federal…
TRENTON, NJ – Phil Murphy can’t help himself. Even after five people have been murdered as a result of his early inmate release program, he’s letting even more criminals out…
TRENTON, NJ – Senator Michael Testa warned that a new round of prisoner releases and pandemic mandates by the Murphy administration will make New Jersey less safe and put corrections…
TRENTON, NJ – When New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy renewed the COVID-19 pandemic state public health emergency order last Monday, he also renewed the state’s early release law that has…
CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA –Several inmates were indicted today on multiple charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced. Dwight Foster, 48, an inmate of USP Hazelton, is charged with…
ROCKFORD — Two inmates at Thomson Penitentiary in Thompson, Ill., were indicted today by a federal grand jury on murder and hate crime charges relating to the beating death of…
SCRANTON – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that three inmates at Federal Correctional Institute – Schuylkill (FCI Schuylkill), Minersville, Pennsylvania, were charged separately…
NORFOLK, Va. – Two men pleaded guilty today to fraudulently obtaining benefits made available as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to court documents, from approximately June 2020 through…
BRUNSWICK, GA: Three inmates are under prosecution in separate cases in the Southern District for assaults on federal correctional officers, while a correctional officer has been sentenced for bringing contraband…
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation…
Two female officers said they were assaulted by inmates at Rikers Island in New York, New York, the New York Post reported on Monday. The female corrections officers are both…
ROCKFORD — Two Thomson Penitentiary inmates have been sentenced to additional prison time for assaulting another inmate. U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp, Jr. on Thursday sentenced JASON MACKENZIE, 40, to eight…
Once again, prisoners will also be getting stimulus checks from the federal government through the third round of COVID-19 relief funding. Included in the first two rounds of stimulus that…
TOMS RIVER, NJ – Did you know Ocean County is the last county where the jail regularly posts inmate check-ins and mug shots? In recent years, most other counties stopped…
MERCED, CA – On February 6, 2021, at approximately 3:30pm Deputies with the Merced County Sheriff’s STAR Team were patrolling the area of Westside Avenue and Robin Avenue in Livingston…