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Tuesday, April 16, 2013  Adams County is considering housing federal inmates in an effort to boost revenue at the Adams County Jail.

Thursday, March 14, 2013  Douglas Pennock pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud in August 2012.

Thursday, January 31, 2013  George Ryan's lawyer says prison officials didn't cut his client a break when they let him serve the rest of his sentence at home.

Friday, January 27, 2012 

Tuesday, June 21, 2011  U.S. District Judge Richard Mills sentenced Brett Kroeger, 28, of Quincy, Ill., to serve 11 years in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine in August 2010.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011  Army private suspected in WikiLeaks breach to be moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

Wednesday, December 01, 2010  A Bowling Green man has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after admitting to making and selling thousands of bootleg DVD movies.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010  A Chambersburg, Illinois, woman, Anita C. Brackett, 51, who previously pled guilty to defrauding two Pike County banks, was sentenced Monday to serve 30 months in federal prison.

Wednesday, December 23, 2009  The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Harley Lappin, told a legislative panel at a public hearing in Sterling that Thomson would be the most secure of all federal prisons in the country.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009  Billek pleaded guilty to both possessing and receiving child pornography.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009  A federal jury in Davenport convicted 34-year-old James Young in April of using the Internet to knowingly entice a minor to engage in illicit sexual activity.

Thursday, February 26, 2009  APNewsBreak: NYC bomb plot terrorist deported a week after being released from federal prison