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Pro-life activists who prayed and sang hymns during a peaceful protest at a Tennessee abortion clinic in 2021 could spend 11 years behind bars thanks to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) use of a federal law created to target Ku Klux Klan members after the Civil War.

Joe Biggs, a leader of the Proud Boys, was sentenced to 17 years in federal prison for his role in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot after a judge determined Biggs qualified for a “terrorism” enhancement. 

CNN’s favorite presidential candidate, Michael Avenatti, is officially a federal prisoner.

A little-known policy change from President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) would allow the administration to free a limitless number of convicts from federal prison, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says. 

Blagojevich said he believes Pritzker tried to keep him in jail because the Democrat establishment is “afraid of what he knows.”

An Egyptian national was sentenced to 212 years in federal prison Thursday for killing his two autistic children in a staged car accident so he could collect money off their life insurance policies.

About 94 percent of foreign nationals incarcerated in federal prisons across the United States are illegal aliens who either crossed international borders illegally or overstayed their visas, the Department of Justice reveals. 

A coalition of 14 Republican and Democrat Senators is pleading with the Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide an early release to elderly felons in federal prison in the midst of the Chinese coronavirus crisis.

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) are seeking stricter federal sentences for traffickers of fentanyl who deceive addicts by misrepresenting what drugs they are actually selling. 

During ABC News’ 2020 Democrat Debate, former Vice President Joe Biden promised to not send any drug traffickers to federal prison and instead vowed that American taxpayers will “pay” to send them to rehab facilities. 

During ABC News’ 2020 Democrat Debate, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, vowed to free all drug dealers and drug traffickers from federal prison in the midst of the opioid crisis. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden said during the third 2020 Democrat presidential primary debate that no “non-violent” convicted criminals should be serving time in prisons across the United States.

New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says all federal prisons should be privatized after disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender and accused sex trafficker, allegedly committed suicide in his prison cell.

Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Richard Shelby (R-AL) on Thursday introduced the No Leniency for Terrorists Act of 2019, a bill that would make convicted terrorists ineligible for early release from prison due to “good behavior.” Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) introduced companion legislation in the House.

About one in four federal inmates are either an illegal alien, legal immigrant, or suspected foreign-born criminal, a new federal report concludes.

There are nearly 60,000 illegal aliens and legal immigrants in the federal prison system, a new report by the Department of Justice (DOJ) reveals. 

Former Congresswoman Corrine Brown reported to federal prison in a luxury Mercedes minivan Monday to begin a five-year sentence for fraud and corruption charges.

A judge sentenced a Baltimore shopkeeper last week to 27 months behind bars for trafficking $1.5 million in food stamps.

About 1 in 5 inmates in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) custody is foreign-born, a Department of Justice (DOJ) report reveals.

The vast majority of foreign nationals sitting in American federal prisons are illegal aliens, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed in a year-end report.

Open borders organizations are now taking their pro-illegal immigration efforts a step further by demanding that violent convicts not be deported.

There are nearly 46,000 foreign-born criminals sitting in federal prisons, according to data released by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

An illegal immigrant living in Florida will be doing time in federal prison after he was convicted of identity theft for 17 years.

The number of Americans dying by drug-overdose has reached a record high since 2009, while tens of thousands of convicted drug-traffickers are getting early releases from federal prisons. In 2014 alone, a total of 47,055 deaths – a rate of

The Department of Homeland Security must remove the thousands of criminal immigrants slated for release from federal prison next month from the U.S., according to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA).

Evelio Padilla, whose arrest led federal to an underwater drug-smuggling tunnel near the U.S-Mexico border, pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday.

Federal prisoners who identify as humanist can now celebrate Darwin Day and get accommodations typically afforded to those inmates who believe in a deity.

Speaking to reporters after the event, Obama explained that even people like him could have ended up in prison. “That’s what strikes me, there but for the grace of God,” he said. “And that is something that we all have to think about.”