Federal officials and the Newton County Sheriff’s Office worked together to stop what they call a major drug trafficking ...

Federal prosecutors say the inmate was leading a massive drug trafficking and money laundering operation from his jail cell.

While serving a life without parole sentence, 46-year-old Jarvis Matthews used contraband cellphones to direct the distribution of drugs in and around Atlanta.

Federal agents say Georgia inmate Jarvis Matthews ran a drug ring from Calhoun State Prison using contraband phones and social media to traffic meth, heroin, and fentanyl across metro Atlanta.

Jarvis Matthews, an inmate serving a life sentence, was convicted of running a drug trafficking and money laundering operation from a Georgia state prison. He faces an additional 25 years in prison.

In a rare Saturday decision, a Georgia federal judge sided with an unnamed Mexican detainee at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., ordering the man to be granted a bond hearing.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — A former Federal Medical Center Lexington employee has pleaded guilty to bribery charges after smuggling tobacco and synthetic marijuana into the federal prison facility in ...