Category: Camp
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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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A Quick Explanation We recently were asked in our Facebook group: “Do they have tablets in camps? Do they provide them or do you have to buy them?” You can join our Facebook group here. It’s active every single day with families in similar circumstances supporting each other and answering one another’s questions. Every security…
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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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It Generally Varies By Security Level There are primarily three different types of housing in federal prison, starting with the open dorm. You’ll see open-air dormitory housing in satellite camps and dedicated minimum security facilities. These kinds of arrangements consist of one big room with bunk beds in several rows. Each inmate in a federal…
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Some Things Are Allowed, Most Are Not What can you bring with you with you self-report to federal prison? This is a question we get a lot on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. The truth of matter is ,you are extremely limited in what you can bring. You can bring your glasses – no contacts allowed.…
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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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What is a Federal Prison Camp, Anyway? A federal prison camp (FPC) is also known as a minimum security facility. Generally, they have the most relaxed enforcement of rules, and the easiest prison culture for all walks of life to integrate into. Still, there are a few things to always keep in mind. Stay away…
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Know What You’re Getting Into This is for those who are sitting at home on pretrial or waiting to self report, thereby meaning you’ve received some sort of bond. Those who might be watching this from inside federal prison have probably already learned these facts via conversations with other inmates, or simply by observing daily…
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Prison Yard Politics Are No Joke Our receptionists get calls from loved ones all the time who worry about what their loved one needs to do once they hit a federal prison yard. Who should they run with? Where should they spend their time? Where should they eat? What are the do’s and don’ts in…
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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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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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Thousands of Inmates Have Been Held Well Beyond Their Conditional Release Date. On September 4, 2024, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) rolled out a new tool that they thought would really help both the case management divisions and most FSA eligible federal inmates. That’s not exactly how this went down. The Conditional Release date started…
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Many of you who are taking the time to read our stories, watch our tips on social media, and work with us as consultants, are justice impacted people who are first time offenders, oftentimes white collar. Most of our audience is on “pre-release” bond awaiting trial, sentencing or self report. More often than not, these…
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Chrisley Knows Best Patriarch, Todd Chrisley, may have known best from 2014-2023 but now that he’s Inmate 76200-019 in the Federal Bureau of Prisons his general lack of knowledge as to how things are supposed to go, continues to bite him in the ass. As you may have heard both Todd Chrisley and his wife…