Kurt Johnson, a 55-year-old fraudster who is being housed at the U.S. Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, is accused of piling billions of dollars of debt on the backs of two prison officials.

Like the other 28 communities known to be named Marion in the United States, Marion, Ill., got its name from the Revolutionary War general, Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion, whose use ...

Marion, IL woman sentenced for providing contraband to inmate By Amber Ruch Published: Aug. 30, 2016 at 5:52 PM PDT ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – On this day 54 years ago, an escapee from the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, gave up his secrecy for a rather unusual reason in Kansas City, Missouri.

MARION, Ill. (KFVS) - U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) announced an inmate housed at the United States Penitentiary (USP) Marion in Illinois has died after testing ...

The total number of inmates in Marion’s medium security facility is 910. There is also a minimum security federal prison camp with 290 inmates. Hollingsworth oversees the management of both.

On Oct. 22, 1983, inmates aligned with the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang murdered two corrections officers at the United States Penitentiary near Marion, Ill. Reverberations from those killings ...