Category: Federal Prison
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Generally, judges look at it this way: if you’re healthy enough to do the crime, you’re healthy enough to do the time. Especially when it’s early on in the sentence. We get a lot of messages from inmates interested in filing compassionate release motions regarding their medical issues. And yes, many of these issues are…
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This Call Is From A Federal Prison. You Will Not Be Charged For This Call. Starting this Tuesday, August 19th, inmates are purported to once again have access to 510 total minutes per month. If they’re FSA eligible and programming to their FSA needs, they will be given 300 free minutes per month with the…
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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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Trump Downgrading Marijuana? USSC Says No No Retro and More When I was an inmate in Federal Prison I was a jailhouse lawyer and during that time (2018-2024) me and several other inmates relied on the information provided weekly from Jermey Gordon and Lisa Legal. We always knew we could trust those two sources over…
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Or are they just a myth? Actually, there are good case managers in federal prison. Most think by the nature of the job, they can only be somewhere between okay and bad. And most will confirm this through their experience – the vast majority of case managers don’t seem to act with inmates best interests…
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Kyle Talks About Being On The Get A Grip Podcast And What’s Happened In The Year Since Then As I sit here and write this story for federalprisontips.com it’s about 11pm on Sunday August 10, 2025. This morning I got one of those “Facebook memory posts” on my timeline about me being in Columbus Ohio…
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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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Eating Good In The Clink There are a lot of prison cooking creators on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. Some of the recipes look interesting, others actually look really good. How do you make them? Well, a lot of videos will show you step-by-step. You can also find a lot of cookbooks. One of the best…
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Getting Free Sooner With The First Step Act One of the most common questions we get in our Facebook, Tiktok, and Instagram comments is about using First Step Act (FSA) credits towards supervised release. Here’s the breakdown: you can use your first year’s worth of accumulated credits towards beginning supervised release, or to the door.…
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Where Do You Go With A Designation To An FMC? When you get your federal prison designation, if you are sent to an FMC, or Federal Medical Center, it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re going to the hospital in federal prison. Most of the federal medical centers around the country run by the Bureau of Prisons…
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What’s A Normal Monthly Spend Look Like? Under normal circumstances, without facing any kind of restrictions, an inmate is allowed to spend up to $360 per month within the BOP. However, many federal prisons are experiencing limits right now where inmates can only spend up to $25 per month on hygiene products. During an inmate’s…
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If Your Loved One’s Case Manager Isn’t Doing Their Job, Should You Call? Calling your loved one’s case manager in federal prison is a horrible idea. We understand that when you have a loved one in federal prison, you want to advocate for them. Most men in federal prison go to their loved ones on…
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Conditions Are Terrible Everywhere – It’s A Problem Whether your loved one is at McKean, Florence, FPC Montgomery, Pensacola, Thompson, Beaumont, or Morgantown, whichever federal prison it is, we know is the absolute worst. As a company staffed by those who have been justice impacted, none of us discount for a second that your loved…
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By Benjamin McConley 18321-014 FCI Coleman Low When President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act into law, he didn’t just push through a piece of legislation, he cracked open the doors of a broken justice system. He gave America’s forgotten men and women a voice, a pathway, and for the first time in a…
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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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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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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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How Good Will A Lawyer Perform That Isn’t Being Paid At All Now that DOGE has completely imploded what does this mean for government oversight? Federal Prison Tips has received documentation confirming that CJA Appointed attorneys for federal defendants facing federal prison that can’t use the Federal Defender’s Office will not be paid until October…