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At least he can bathe himself and get hygiene products, but Greg Burleson is banned from getting extra food through his commissary privilege and his mattress has been taken away for three months, he is banned from having visitors and making phone calls for eight months. His personal items were taken away from him. Burleson was convicted in the first rigged Bunkervile Standoff trial last year and sentenced to 68 years and three months in prison. Evidence proving his innocence uncovered in the third trial of key defendants including Bundy family members led to dismissal of those charges because of...

WILLIAMSPORT — A former guard at the Allenwood Low-Security Institution will keep his job and not go to jail for stealing DirecTV signals because of what the government terms his exceptional cooperation. Harold James Aikey, 36, of Athol, Mass., was sentenced Thursday by U.S. Middle District Senior Judge James F. McClure Jr., who accepted the government’s recommendation for probation. The judge also agreed to a defense recommendation, since Assistant U.S. Attorney Wayne P. Samuelson did not object, that Aikey be permitted to carry a firearm if duty requires during the two years he is on probation. He may not carry...

Filed at 7:47 p.m. ET U.S. marshals transferred former Rep. James A. Traficant Jr. on Monday from an Ohio jail to a federal prison in Pennsylvania where he will serve eight years for bribery and racketeering. Traficant had asked to be placed in an Ohio prison so he can run for re-election Nov. 5 from his Youngstown district. But the sentencing judge made no recommendation either way. The Constitution states that a congressional candidate must be a resident of the state where he is seeking office. Both Traficant's spokesman and state officials said they did not know if his assignment...