Category: BOP
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Whats Going On At Federal Prison Tips It’s no secret that on February 1, 2026 I was attacked and I lost vision in my left eye permanently. There’s a lot of crazy rumors going on around the internet about me. Today my eye is still sealed shut but they will be unsealing it soon but…
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Nearly A Decade Of Experience In White Collar Cases With “The Firm” Helps Set Federal Prison Tips Apart Leo Bucheiri is the new fulltime Legal Services Director at Federal Priso Tips, your number one source for Federal Prison News, Information and post conviction relief. Educated overseas and with nearly a decade of experience in the…
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Chicago That’s My Kind Of Town Federal Prison Tips is pulling up to the windy city on Wednesday February 4, 2026 from 6-8pm at the Spring Hill Marriott O’Hare, 8101 W. Higgins Road, Chicago. At our meetups it’s a town hall style seminar led by Federal Prison Tips founder Kyle Sandler who will be discussing…
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Federal Prison Tips Kicks Off Their 2026 Tour in Houston Texas January 14th Tickets and Sponsorships Join Kyle, Nelson and other members of the Federal Prison Tips Team Wednesday January 14, 2026 from 6-8pm at the Spring Hill Suites Houston International Airport for Federal Prison Tips Live. Join Mr. Federal Prison, Kyle Sandler as he…
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United States Sentencing Commission Proposes Guideline Amendment To Reduce Loss Table On Inflation Defendants facing Federal Prison for white collar crimes are sentenced based on a table callled “Basic Economic Offenses” (download here). That table outlines suggested sentences for offenders with fraud and other financial crimes based on a combination of intended and actual loss.…
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White Collar Inmate In Federal Prison Gets Duped By The Government, Or Did He? With information by Dale Chappell We just has a client’s wife call us frantic over the holiday weekend. Her husband, a former Medical Doctor who is doing 72 months for “healthcare kickbacks” had around $7500 seized from his “Trust Fund Account”…
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There Are Over 130 FSA Programs Available In Federal Prison The First Step Act of 2018 was passed in December 2018, over seven years ago. The BOP is currently working on implementing all of the intracacies of the program. The foundations of the First Step Act (FSA) are an inmates participation in Evidence Based Recidivism…
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Is Celebrity Federal Inmate Ghislaine Maxwell Still Getting Special Treatment The Special Treatment allegedly begins with the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20 year Federal Prison Sentence for aiding financier sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is being housed at a federal prison camp, or so many people think. The fact of the matter when it…
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Eric Speirs, Former BOP Correctional Officer, and Kyle Sandler, Former Federal Inmate, Tackle Crime, Punishment, Incarceration, Current Events and of course the BOP Over the summer Former Federal Prison Officers Eric Speirs and Fred Chambliss sat down to hug-a thug, no actually to discuss pertinent issues to correctional officers in the BOP and inmates in…
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If You’re A CO And Don’t Have A Colleague Nicknamed Robocop, It’s You – You’re Robocop Corrections1.com recently posted the question in this headline and received mixed reviews. Here at Federal Prison Tips, we have a ton of viewers who are correctional officers in federal prison. So, which one earns inmate respect – towing the…
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There Is Something You Can Do About It We hear it all the time: “The BOP won’t tell me anything about my loved one in federal prison.” If you’re new to federal prison, or if you have somebody going to federal prison, make sure you fill out one of these release of information consent forms.…
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Shutdowns Affect Us All. Let’s Put A Stop To This. During federal government shutdowns, the pardon office is closed, courts are moving slower, and for ongoing cases, the government often asks for stays until the shutdown is over. No one, in any job role, likes to work without being paid. However, it should be noted…
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We’re Sick of it. They Don’t Care. Today, there are over 75 federal prisons across the country that have essentially flipped the bird at Billy Marshall, Josh Smith, and Rick Stober’s demands to implement the First Step Act (FSA) and Second Chance Act (SCA) correctly. According to memos released by Billy Marshall, those federal prisons…
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Strange Exceptions To The Rules, No Explanation – Yet Attorney General Pam Bondi has until the end of the month to explain why Ghislaine Maxwell is housed at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, with a sex offender charge and a 20 year prison sentence. According to statute and BOP policy, sex offenders and…
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Yep, Firing Ranges Few inmates mention this, but there is a scary reality that the majority of inmates experience while incarcerated in federal prison. Every federal prison complex in the country has a firing range. Some are located closer to the prison than others. Sometimes it’s off in the distance, other times it’s too close…
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When Does Halfway House Time Begin? Ninety seven percent of inmates in federal prison will one day find themselves in the hallways shown in the video above – a federal halfway house. The one shown here is Banyan Halfway House in Miami, Florida. Banyan houses inmates in the Southern District of Florida. Following the First…
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Do We Really Need More ICE Agents? Or More Correctional Officers? The Bureau of Prisons recently posted the photos displayed in the above TikTok link on their Facebook page, showing federal prison officers doubling as ICE agents in the field. According to all available data, there’s a nationwide shortage of correctional officers in the federal…
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Federal Prison System Removes Training Slides From Website On Thursday October 16, 2025 we ran the video above on Tiktok, Instagram, Youtube and Facebook. The somewhat aggressive video highlights several institutions that are still refusing to follow the directives that Federal Prison Director William K. “Billy” Marshall III, issues on June 17, 2025 that directed…
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These Forms May Help You Advocate For Your Inmate in Federal Prison Separating from a loved one who is beginning their journey in federal prison can be very tough. What makes it even harder is it’s nearly impossible for a loved one on the street to advocate for someone behind the fence. The Bureau of…
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Every Day Counts. If your inmate or loved one in federal prison is currently incarcerated after being incarcerated in a county jail, and that county time was in service of the federal charges, they are entitled to that time coming off their federal prison sentence. There’s no such thing as “dead time,” or time incarcerated…