Category: Discipline

  • How To Get A Public Safety Factor Removed In Federal Prison

    Is it possible to get a public safety factor removed when you’re in federal prison? This is a question we get often. There’s nuances to this question. Was it added by your case management team by mistake? If so, then yeah, sometimes paperwork can be pushed and it can be removed. For instance, we had…

  • Are We Finally Getting Unannounced Federal Prison Inspections?

    We certainly could be! We heard that last week, the new director of the federal prison system, Billy Marshall, made an planned inspection of FCI Morgantown in Morgantown, West Virginia. But now, we’re hearing that Josh Smith, the deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons, made an unannounced spot check of McCreary over the weekend…

  • Will the LA and Other Immigration Riots Cause Federal Prison Lockdowns?

    Civil Unrest & Prison Lockdowns There are a lot of inmates in federal prison who haven’t been there for very long; now, many inmates who experienced COVID lockdowns and/or the unrest following the George Floyd incident have already been released to halfway house, home confinement, or their sentence has ended. In the past five years,…

  • Can a Medical Marijuana Card Save You From a Probation Violation?

    Many think a medical marijuana card is enough to excuse marijuana use during supervised release. There’s more to the story – just because you’re on the outside, you aren’t free from the system and its consequences. Medical Marijuana and Supervised Release Although marijuana is recreationally legal in several states and medically legal in even more,…

  • I Was A Crash Test Dummy

    During the first part of my Federal Prison bid (years 1-5) I was a cut up. It took a little while for me to get adjusted. During my time at FPC Montgomery I received 7 smoking shots, 1 cell phone shot and a shot for something within my “lifestyle”. It’s these behaviors which caused me…