Category: Federal Prison
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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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Eric Speirs, Former BOP Correctional Officer, and Kyle Sandler, Former Federal Inmate, Tackle Crime, Punishment, Incarceration, Current Events and of course the BOP Over the summer Former Federal Prison Officers Eric Speirs and Fred Chambliss sat down to hug-a thug, no actually to discuss pertinent issues to correctional officers in the BOP and inmates in…
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If You’re A CO And Don’t Have A Colleague Nicknamed Robocop, It’s You – You’re Robocop Corrections1.com recently posted the question in this headline and received mixed reviews. Here at Federal Prison Tips, we have a ton of viewers who are correctional officers in federal prison. So, which one earns inmate respect – towing the…
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Federal Prison Tips Founder Reveals Emergent Medical Need It may be because of my crime, or because of the things I learned from all of that Evidence Based Recidivism Reducing Programming and other Productive Activities that I participated in during my federal prison bid, but I have become ultra transparent in everything we do. While…
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There Is Something You Can Do About It We hear it all the time: “The BOP won’t tell me anything about my loved one in federal prison.” If you’re new to federal prison, or if you have somebody going to federal prison, make sure you fill out one of these release of information consent forms.…
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Congresswoman Is Fed Up With BOP’s Management During Shutdown Congresswoman Summer Lee of Pennsylvania is demanding answers from the director of the federal prison system, William K. Marshall III. In a statement posted on her website today directed to the director of the BOP, the Congresswoman wants to know specifically if the quality of inmates’…
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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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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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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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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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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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Without A Doubt, The Answer Is Yes If an inmate gets a shot, the colloquial term for an incident report after breaking a rule, they will lose their halfway house placement date. Once an inmate has been given their halfway house placement date, it’s time more than ever to cut the crap and stay on…
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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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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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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…