Category: BOP
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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…
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What Is The System? How Does It Work? The “email” system in federal prison functions through the federal prison operating system called TRULINCS, and is only available on computer systems in dedicated rooms set up in each housing unit. As it currently stands, this system cannot be accessed through the SCORE-7c tablets that can be…
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Is It Related To The Government Shutdown? We’re getting a lot of reports lately about commissaries across the country having next to nothing in stock. Almost everyone on our team here at Federal Prison Tips has been through this, and there’s nothing more frustrating – especially on days when the prison meals at the chow…
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A Judge Can Request The BOP To Do Lots Of Things – But They Don’t Have To If you’re facing sentencing on federal charges and your lawyer is telling you that he’ll simply ask the judge to recommend RDAP and you’ll get the year off, think again. Lawyers rarely know how it works after sentencing.…
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The Population Is Aging Everywhere – Including Prison Over the last 30 years, the number of older people in federal prison, classed at 55 years old or older, has exploded from 3% in 1991 to 15% today. By 2030, the Bureau of Prisons is expecting one in three inmates to be over the age of…
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Is It Good For Inmates? Following the story of the BOP terminating the master agreement with the council of Prison Locals 33, the union that represents BOP correctional officers and staff within federal prisons across the country, we wanted to clear up what this means. The agreement was terminated upon executive order by President Trump.…
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Diddy Sentenced To 50 Months In Federal Prison When Will He Be Home? Sean P. Diddy Combs was sentenced to 50 months in Federal Prison today in the Southern District of New York, after being found guilty of two counts of “Transportation to Engage in Prostitution”. He was acquitted of the more serious charges of…
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Shit Just Got Real At The BOP On September 25th, the Bureau of Prisons terminated the master agreement with the council of Prisons Locals 33, the union that represents correctional officers and staff members in the Bureau of Prisons. Previously, under the master agreement, anytime a major decision was paraded through the prison system, the…
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What Can A 2241 Motion Do? Habeas Corpus is a Latin term that means “you have the body.” This motion allows inmates in federal prison to challenge the legality of their confinement based on the conditions or other elements. If an inmate is being held past their conditional release date as per their First Step…
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I Was An Inmate In Federal Prison During 2 Government Shutdowns The government shutdown today October 1, 2025 which isn’t new there have been 5 government shutdowns in the last 10 years and I was personally an inmate in federal prison during two of them. The most notable was in 2018 which was featured on…
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What’s The Problem Now? By now, everyone knows that Federal Prison Director Billy Marshall issued a memorandum back in June and posted it on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. This memo directed case managers in the BOP to stack First Step Act (FSA) and Second Chance Act (SCA) benefits to provide inmates the maximum…
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OIG Issues Report On FSA 500 Mile Rule With Shocking Findings When Congress passed the First Step Act (FSA) in 2018, one key promise was to reduce the harm of incarceration by housing federal inmates as close as practicable to their families. The law directs the Bureau of Prisons to place prisoners within 500 driving…
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In response to an Executive Order from President Trump signed earlier this year, today BOP Director William K Marshall III terminated the Master Agreement with Council of Prisons Locals 33 (CPL-33) the union that represents federal prison correctional officers. Many feel that this is a welcomed change for inmates and some staff who’ve witnessed first…