The penitentiary has over the years housed such infamous criminals as George "Machine Gun" Kelly, Robert Stroud, James Earl ...

Chris Pettit, the notorious ex-San Antonio lawyer who stole tens of millions of dollars from his clients, is now a resident of the U.S. penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kan. The Bureau of Prisons moved ...

As in Leavenworth, many of the facilities slated for reopening were closed after findings of abuse or dangerous conditions. Nowhere is that more clear than at FCI Dublin in California, a federal women ...

Michael Scheuer, 41, was sentenced to three years in federal prison and must pay close to $700,000 in restitution. Chris Spargo is a senior reporter at PEOPLE who joined the crime team in 2025.

George Santos was sentenced Friday to 87 months in prison for aggravated identity ... his life story and was also facing nearly two dozen federal charges, including allegations of fraud related ...

Those lies were later revealed to include campaign finance fraud. He was indicted in federal court on Long Island on a wide array of charges in 2023. Prosecutors said he committed identity theft ...

PREVIOUSY, August 24, 2024: Former GOP Rep. George Santos pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges today and faces a minimum of two years in prison, with a sentencing hearing set for February.

Disgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison -- the maximum he faced -- on Friday after pleading guilty to a series of fraudulent schemes.

U.S. District Judge John A. Kronstadt sentenced: — Latrice Taylor, 42, of Buena Park, to 27 months in federal prison; — Evelyn Taylor, 41, of South Los Angeles, to 18 months in federal prison ...

A federal court in Topeka ordered CoreCivic — the private prison company vying to re-establish its shuttered prison as an immigrant detention center in Leavenworth — to respond to a complaint ...

was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison on Friday. His 87-month sentence was a severe corrective to a turbulent period in which Mr. Santos was catapulted from anonymity to ...