Hollywood star Wesley Snipes has entered prison tonight.

THE Obama administration is looking at creating a courtroom-within-a-prison complex in the US to house suspected terrorists, combining military and civilian detention facilities at a single maximum-security prison.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff today arrived at a federal prison in North Carolina to begin serving a 150-year sentence for what is believed to be the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

Wesley Snipes has requested he be allowed to serve his three-year prison sentence at a facility near his New Jersey home.

Authorities say guards have shot and killed two inmates at a US federal prison after up to 200 inmates battled with homemade weapons in a fight that appeared to be racially motivated.

Former media mogul Conrad Black is expected to be sentenced in the US on Monday after he was convicted of swindling shareholders out of millions of dollars.

Two people have been killed in a gun battle inside a US prison when a guard opened fire on FBI agents who had come to arrest him on suspicion of demanding sex from female inmates.

Two federal employees were shot dead today at a detention centre in Florida and another was injured after a guard allegedly opened fire on FBI agents serving arrest warrants, the FBI said.

Domestic diva Martha Stewart has reported to prison to begin serving a five month sentence for lying about a shares sale.

THE Danbury Federal Correctional Institution is only about 20 miles from Martha Stewart’s home in Connecticut, but it will seem like a world away from her usual lifestyle.

Celebrity homemaker Martha Stewart will be sentenced today and learn whether she will have to trade the tastefully-tinted walls of her home for the spare cinderblocks of a prison cell.

Washington police have decided that Congressman Gary Condit ‘‘is not the central figure’’ in the investigation of intern Chandra Levy’s disappearance.

Police are analysing items removed from a US Congressman's apartment for clues about the disappearance of a former federal intern.

Washington police have begun a search of a US Congressman's apartment for clues in the disappearance of missing intern Chandra Levy.

A day before his scheduled execution, convicted Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh was moved to a holding cell near the chamber where he will be put to death.

Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh has moved a step closer to execution.

Federal officials have set a May 16 execution date for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.