ALEXANDRIA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A woman was sentenced to federal jail time after she was caught smuggling contraband into a federal prison in Louisiana.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Louisiana announced that Whitney Shaw, 42, of Coldwater, Mississippi, was sentenced to 50 months in federal prison. The court sentenced her on October 23, 2026, for an incident on January 20, 2025.
According to court documents, Whitney Shaw had traveled to the United States Penitentiary in Pollock (USP-Pollock) to visit inmate Justin Shaw, 40. Prosecutors said surveillance footage captured Whitney removing an object from her pants and handing it to Justin Shaw…