Sentencing for federal crimes is governed by federal sentencing guidelines and a "severity points" system developed by the Federal Sentencing Commission. There's a very thick manual with lots of detail involved, but basically the process (omitting quite a bit) goes...

Ethan Roberts knows about mackerel discipline first hand. Mr. Roberts, who was released in 2007 after serving eight years on a methamphetamine charge at prisons including the La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution in Texas, says he got busted for various...

Honestly, we never cared much either way about massage enthusiast/Bear Stearns investor Jeff Epstein but we're starting to love The Ladies Man who, according to Page Six, has been spending his incarcerated days "at the [prison] library e-mailing various models...

Sue Herera, Dennis Kneale: Are we fueling the fire [by talking about the companies that are next likely to fail]? Steve Liesman: No, we need to talk about this....