Category: Federal Prison
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Evidence Has Shown For a Decade That Longer Sentences Don’t Reduce Crime On Monday Lisa Legal moved this story about new legislation proposed in Congress to combat crime in Washington DC. The world has seen that President Trump has moved the National Guard into our nation’s capital, and 4 other United States cities to help…
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Guideline Amendments Disappoint Federal Prison Inmates Inmates in Federal Prison look forward to the United States Sentencing Commission’s annual guideline amendments. This year was especially hopeful as there was a proposed amendment eliminated the disparity between methamphetamine mix and pure methamphetamine as well as an amendment that would eliminate the ability to look at state…
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Some BOP Employees And Ex-Employees Want Josh To Go Most people who are familiar with Deputy Director of the Bureau of Prisons, Josh Smith, are aware that he is a felon. Following his crimes in his youth and early 20s, he became a successful entrepreneur, and worked within his nonprofit to advocate for prison reform…
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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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First Step Act Applies To Everyone, But Not All Benefits Can Be Earned There’s a very nuanced point that we need to stress, which some case managers don’t fully understand: everyone in federal prison is eligible for the First Step Act. What we mean is this: The First Step Act covers a wide range of…
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Loved Ones Coalition Report For September 15th Highlights Preventable Inmate Death at Duluth This week’s Loved Ones Coalition Oversight Report presents an extensive, multi-facility investigation into conditions inside numerous U.S. federal prisons. Drawing on testimony from incarcerated individuals, families, and some correctional officers, it documents a pattern of systemic abuse, neglect, and retaliation across the…
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Federal Prison Tips Live First Step Act Workshop Thank you for joining Federal Prison Tips for our Federal Prison Tips Live Free First Step Act Workshop. The First Step Act was the first piece of bipartisan prison reform passed by Congress in over 2 decades when it was signed into law during President Trump’s first…
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Religious Freedom Is Decently Well-Protected In Federal Prison When you begin your federal prison sentence at your final prison destination, you will need to self-identify your religion to the R&D department. They will note this in SENTRY. Your official religious designation is important so you can celebrate sanctioned days off work during religious holidays. For…
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If These Things Don’t Come Naturally, You’ll Learn Quick If you can live every day with those three things in mind, you can make it through a federal prison sentence without any scrapes and scratches. It doesn’t matter what security level we’re talking about, or whether it’s state or federal prison – those are three…
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Cell Phone Jammers Will Be Voted On This Month The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to vote on a new policy change on September 30th, which may allow prisons (federal and state) to install cell phone jammers around their institutions to prevent contraband cell phones from making calls out of prisons. To this day,…
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Latest “Loved Ones Coalition” Report Highlights Extreme Neglect In U.S. Federal Prison Each week Christine Amador and the Loved Ones Coalition highlights actual instances of neglect, mistreatment and retaliation at Federal Prisons across the country. The Loved One’s Coalition was started by Christine Amador as a support group for families and loved ones with inmates…
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BOP Math Isn’t Mathing This spring new Federal Prison Director (BOP) William K Marshall III “Billy” made a huge splash. In fact, even to this day his new executive team; himself, Deputy Director Josh Smith and Assistant Deputy Director Rick Stover have breathed new life into an embattled agency. Since Marshall’s tenure began they’ve implemented…
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A Detainer Is Not A Final Order Of Removal Are you the loved one of an undocumented inmate in federal prison? In a few different videos on federal prison tips TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook, you may have heard us talking about Jesus Sanchez Ledezma. Jesus was an inmate at the federal prison in Yazoo, Mississippi.…
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How Do Fentanyl Charges And First Step Act Interact? Can an inmate in federal prison with a fentanyl charge get benefits under the First Step Act (FSA)? There seems to be some confusion. There are some fentanyl charges that actually are eligible. If your judgement & commitment(J&C) says 841(a), you’re eligible. If it says 841(b)(1)(B)…
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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…