The purpose of prison is to serve the punishment, but unless the penalty is a life sentence, a prisoner will one day reintegrate into society, at least in theory.
A federal lawsuit has been filed by the Justice Department against the State of Louisiana and the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) for allegedly keeping prisoners incarcerated for weeks and months after they have fully served their sentences and were legally entitled to be released, according to a Justice Department press release.
Chen Jinping, 60, from New York, pleaded guilty on Dec. 18, 2024, to crimes related to operating an illegal police station in Lower Manhattan, NYC, under the direction of China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS), according to a DOJ press release. Jinping acted as an unlicensed agent of the Chinese government on behalf of one […]
After years of scandal, the Dublin federal women’s prison is a sordid footnote in the Bureau of Prisons’ history. The government settled a lawsuit by former inmates of the prison known as “the Rape Club” for $115 million, the law firm for the inmates reported in a Dec. 18 press release.
Tristan Cox, a 33-year-old former halfway house employee, was arrested Nov. 13 on federal charges of non-consensual sexual contact with a federal inmate in his custody and was released on a $10,000 bond.
Andrea “Andi” High Bear was sentenced to 26 months in federal prison for a drug-related crime in South Dakota. Three months after arriving at Federal Medical Center Carswell, a Bureau of Prisons facility in Fort Worth, the pregnant mother of five contracted COVID-19. She died shortly after her daughter was born.
Henry Yau, an Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) supervisor, was arrested for his alleged role in connection with a scheme to commit identity theft, convert government records and disclose agency records containing individually identifiable information, according to a Justice Department press release.
Darius A. Paduch, a former urologist employed by two prominent medical institutions in the New York City area, was sentenced to life in prison on Nov. 20 for sexually abusing patients, according to a public statement by the Department of Justice. Some of those patients were minors who were subjected to Paduch’s egregious assaults for […]
Phillips 66, a Houston-based company, was charged with six counts of violating the Clean Water Act after it allegedly illegally discharged hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial wastewater from its Carson oil refinery into the Los Angeles County sewer system, then failing to report the violations to authorities, according to a Nov. 21 Justice […]
A volunteer Little League coach tried to solicit sex online from a 13-year-old. That 13-year-old was actually an undercover detective posing as a minor to catch adult predators.
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