Rodney Gaines, known as “Butta” or “Butters,” was a leader in a crack-cocaine operation in Westminster, determined the U.S.

After closing USP Thomson (IL) in 2023 and repurposing the facility as a low security prison, the OIG noted widespread abuses ...

A U.S. District Court judge has sentenced three Raleigh County residents to federal prison for taking part in a local drug ...

Federal prosecutors are recommending nearly six years in prison for ex-Springfield lobbyist Mike McClain, the longtime friend ...

The report, by the Justice Department’s internal watchdog, comes after an investigative series by The Marshall Project and ...

A Detroit man was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay more than $650,000 in a scheme over COVID-19 relief loans ...

Jeffrey Adam Crum kicked a deputy U.S. marshal in the head while being detained after a court hearing last November.

Lawyers for the 77-year-old McClain asked for probation. They cited the possibility that he could "die alone in prison" and ...

Less than 10 months after reporting to federal prison, Edward Burke was released to begin spending the rest of his sentence ...

Authorities found him with the drugs and gun after discovering he had a warrant out for his arrest charging him in a Hartford ...

Anthony Sims, 56, received a federal prison sentence that means he will likely spend the rest of his life in prison.

Michael McClain, 77, a former Illinois representative lobbyist for Commonwealth Edison, was convicted of bribery conspiracy ...