Category: BOP
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Guideline Amendments Disappoint Federal Prison Inmates Inmates in Federal Prison look forward to the United States Sentencing Commission’s annual guideline amendments. This year was especially hopeful as there was a proposed amendment eliminated the disparity between methamphetamine mix and pure methamphetamine as well as an amendment that would eliminate the ability to look at state…
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Some BOP Employees And Ex-Employees Want Josh To Go Most people who are familiar with Deputy Director of the Bureau of Prisons, Josh Smith, are aware that he is a felon. Following his crimes in his youth and early 20s, he became a successful entrepreneur, and worked within his nonprofit to advocate for prison reform…
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This Follows Officers Being Exposed To Dangerous Substance We just received work that three Bureau of Prisons correctional officers at the low security federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, had to seek medical attention last Friday. They were exposed to a fentanyl-like substance in the Grandville unit. The unit officer, along with two officers who…
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Understanding The State Of Video Visits In Federal Prison As it stands today, unfortunately, there are no video visits in men’s federal prisons, and there’s no given time frame in which we can expect this to become available. Now, women’s prisons have had video visits through the TRULINCS kiosk for the past four years. The…
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Loved Ones Coalition Report For September 15th Highlights Preventable Inmate Death at Duluth This week’s Loved Ones Coalition Oversight Report presents an extensive, multi-facility investigation into conditions inside numerous U.S. federal prisons. Drawing on testimony from incarcerated individuals, families, and some correctional officers, it documents a pattern of systemic abuse, neglect, and retaliation across the…
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Federal Prison Tips Live First Step Act Workshop Thank you for joining Federal Prison Tips for our Federal Prison Tips Live Free First Step Act Workshop. The First Step Act was the first piece of bipartisan prison reform passed by Congress in over 2 decades when it was signed into law during President Trump’s first…
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Latest “Loved Ones Coalition” Report Highlights Extreme Neglect In U.S. Federal Prison Each week Christine Amador and the Loved Ones Coalition highlights actual instances of neglect, mistreatment and retaliation at Federal Prisons across the country. The Loved One’s Coalition was started by Christine Amador as a support group for families and loved ones with inmates…
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BOP Math Isn’t Mathing This spring new Federal Prison Director (BOP) William K Marshall III “Billy” made a huge splash. In fact, even to this day his new executive team; himself, Deputy Director Josh Smith and Assistant Deputy Director Rick Stover have breathed new life into an embattled agency. Since Marshall’s tenure began they’ve implemented…
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Hint: There’s A Reason It Doesn’t Happen Often Federal Prison Tips specializes in post conviction work. We have 11 staff members and three paralegals. Our work speaks for itself – our testimonial videos are everywhere, and you have probably come across a few. But we, most other post-conviction firms, and even law firms shy away…
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What Are The 68 Disqualifying Offenses? 18 USC § 3632(d)(4)(D) outlines the specific offenses that make an inmate ineligible to earn First Step Act (FSA) time credits. If any of the offenses listed below are among your charges, you will not see any sentence reductions from the First Step Act. Offense Code Offense Description Section…
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Addressing The Details Before You Leave Preparing to leave federal prison should start the day you arrive. But, here’s a pro tip. About halfway through your sentence, you need to make sure you don’t have any existing warrants or detainers. The BOP will not release you to a halfway house if these haven’t been addressed.…
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Use Administrative Remedies Sparingly Don’t overuse administrative remedies in federal prison – regardless of who told you otherwise. We recently had someone in one of our Facebook groups talking about using administrative remedies and appealing to Congress for small issues that happen to their inmate in federal prison. Even though Josh Smith, Deputy Director of…
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100-Series Shots And The Second Chance Act 100-series shots absolutely affect your community confinement time under the Second Chance Act. When evaluating how much time an inmate will spend in community confinement (halfway house and home confinement), case managers use a tool called the “Five-Factor Review.” This uses an inmate’s history before and during prison…
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We get this question a lot: aren’t inmates who’ve earned less than 365 day of First Step Act (FSA) credit supposed to learn up to 12 months of Second Chance Act (SCA) community confinement as well? The answer is yes, 100%. This was verified by the director of the BOP in his press release to…
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Visits & Searches We recently had a question come across our desk. The question was, do BOP employees check you every time you go to visitation? The answer is yes. Absolutely. Across security levels, from minimum security to maximum, every federal prison in the BOP checks inmates and visitors before face-to-face time begins. Inmates are…
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When It Comes To The BOP, There’s No Immediate Gratification What many inmates and inmate’s families need to understand is that immediate gratification doesn’t exist when it comes to issues regarding federal prison. For instance, the purported changes in applying FSA and SCA benefits. One week ago, Rick Stover called Federal Prison Tips founder Kyle…
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3 Federal Prison Tips Clients We Helped Minimize Their Federal Prison Sentence without snitching Now that you’ve been charged with a federal crime the first thing you’re thinking about is minimizing your exposure, minimizing your time in federal prison. We take calls all the time from clients and potential clients who have attorneys tell them…
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Inmates Train Dogs In Some Federal Prison Locations The Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery and the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan Texas are just some of the federal prisons that offer the IMPACT Dog Training Program. The Impact Dog Training Program pairs a dog with an inmate trainer companion for 24 hour a day training.…
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The Unannounced Inspections Begin Here at Federal Prison Tips have spoken with several inmates housed at the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery, as well as their loved ones, and several staff members on the condition of anonymity. We can confirm that the Southeast Region inspected the Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery on Tuesday unannounced. During…
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How Can You Maximize Your Pay In Federal Prison? Many federal prisons require their inmate population to work. This is especially relevant at federal prison camps. At all federal prisons, if you’re working a regular job outside of UNICOR, you’re working on a pay scale starting at Grade A, which is 12 cents per hour,…