Category: BOP
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How Does The Second Chance Act Work? Let’s take a 360 month sentence, for example. Let’s also say this person does not qualify for benefits via the First Step Act (FSA). In most cases, you will still qualify for benefits from the SCA, even if you don’t qualify for the FSA. The SCA was passed…
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Clearing Up The Confusion Just how many clemencies and pardons will President Donald Trump’s pardon office grant? There seems to be some confusion about this, even though there was a big story about it a few weeks ago. Joe Biden granted 6,600 clemencies before he left office on January 20, 2025. President Trump vowed to…
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What Happened With The Sentencing Commission Amendment Regarding Methampetamines? Circulating rumors concerning a change in how pure vs. mixed methamphetamine, or “ice” is charged are unfortunately untrue, but this wasn’t exactly fake news, either. There was a proposed amendment to the United States Sentencing Guidelines earlier this year. The proposed amendment called for eliminating the…
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When It Comes To Court, Nothing Is Certain Whether you’re in prison or facing federal prison, there’s a number of reasons why anyone who does legal work can’t provide any kind of guarantee. Oftentimes people forget, especially inmates or defendants, that judges are just people, too. If something bad happens that day, if they wake…
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Is It The Case Managers’ Fault? Or, The Halfway House? We all know now about the recent guidance issued by Director Billy Marshall, who plainly stated that FSA and SCA benefits are meant to be stacked when calculating an inmate’s release date to halfway house or home confinement. Case managers are being reported from all…
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Why Is Their Conviction Rate So High? Are the feds really that good? How do they have a 96% conviction rate? Does the FBI, DEA, Homeland Security, and all other federal agencies really have the best investigators in the world? Is that why they have a 96% conviction rate and why there are 155,000 inmates…
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Former CO Blows The Whistle & Gets Punished Apparently Ms. Smith, the unit manager at Yazoo Federal Prison Low in Yazoo, Mississippi, isn’t the only corrupt staff member at the complex. Former correctional officer Fred Chambliss from Yazoo, Mississippi, has gone to the FBI to report the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of…
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The Short Answer, Yes If you’re waiting to self report to federal prison and expect to owe restitution, this is important. Yes, the BOP can take money from your trust fund account, also known as your commissary account, for restitution and court costs, even if you’re not working a job in federal prison. In fact,…
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Cash App Payments, Legality, & If We Accept Them You’ve probably heard from other TikTok creators in the prison space that you can go to prison for sending or receiving cash app payments from somebody in prison, whether it’s state or federal prison. The truth is, there’s no actual law on the books in regards…
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One Singular Line Item For The BOP As you’ve probably heard by now, the Big Beautiful Bill was passed this week in Congress and now will be enacted into law. It has a lot of tax provisions and political consequences we won’t get into. The one thing it gives the federal prison system is $5,000,000,000.…
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Mass Emailing Gets Mass Deleted By The BOP It’s a bad day to be a newsletter distributor like Lisa Legal or Jeremy Gordon, who rely on TRULINCS and CORRLINKS to send their post-conviction law updates in newsletters to inmates in federal prison. About six months ago, the BOP limited the number of messages you could…
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Two Winners Will Get $360 On Their Books July is Freedom Month here at Federal Prison Tips, and we’re giving two winners $360 of free commissary money – that’s enough to max out your spend for an entire month. All you have to do is like, share, and subscribe to Federal Prison Tips on Tiktok…
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Programming Statement Myth: Am I Entitled To Hot Meals? Programming statements are essentially the bylaws which state how the prison system is supposed to work. In this post, we’re going to focus on some things that inmates have been led to believe are in programming statements, but in fact, are not. The first is that…
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So, What’s the Deal? Can the First Step Act, or FSA, get an inmate in federal prison under a mandatory minimum? Yes. For instance, if you got a mandatory minimum on a drug conspiracy for 10 years without a firearm or a leadership role, you would be fully FSA eligible. You will also benefit from…
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Who Benefits From Keeping Inmates Locked Up? There’s lots of misinformation floating around inside prison walls, and these “facts” get used to justify observations made by the BOP. Inmates have nothing else to do, and think they know what they’re talking about, then start passing around theories as truth. We’re here to set the record…
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We’re All Fed Up With Prison Admins Ignoring Directives & Law Of all institutions to be ignorant of the law, and to have public servants act insubordinately to their superiors, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) should be the last on that list. Deputy Director Josh Smith has made it clear that those who continue to…
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How Do You Teach a Class or Get Other Jobs in Federal Prison? When Kyle Sandler, founder of Federal Prison Tips was incarcerated at the federal prison camp in Montgomery, he taught business classes, public speaking classes, and other ACE classes. ACE stands for Adult Continuing Education, and is how most formal classes are categorized.…
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If Your Loved One Is Being Held Past Their Conditional Release Date, Their Are Options Over a week ago, new guidance was issued to inmates in federal prison, prison staff, and the public at large on BOP.gov. BOP director Billy Marshall issued guidance that cleared the air around a massive question: First Step Act and…
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Mind Your P’s and Q’s Federal Prison Tips is the largest influencer network in the federal prison space on social media, bar none. We have 5 million views every month between Instagram and Tiktok. Whether you’re an inmate in federal prison or a staff member at a federal prison, please read this article carefully. Why?…
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What Do You Have To Do To Survive A Prison Term? Those are the only three things you need to know to survive and thrive throughout the course of your federal prison sentence. This comes from Kyle Sandler, founder of Federal Prison Tips, who is gay, Hawaiian, and Jewish. Utilizing this advice, he survived two…