Category: Federal Prison
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Former CO Blows The Whistle & Gets Punished Apparently Ms. Smith, the unit manager at Yazoo Federal Prison Low in Yazoo, Mississippi, isn’t the only corrupt staff member at the complex. Former correctional officer Fred Chambliss from Yazoo, Mississippi, has gone to the FBI to report the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of…
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Mass Emailing Gets Mass Deleted By The BOP It’s a bad day to be a newsletter distributor like Lisa Legal or Jeremy Gordon, who rely on TRULINCS and CORRLINKS to send their post-conviction law updates in newsletters to inmates in federal prison. About six months ago, the BOP limited the number of messages you could…
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If Your Loved One Is Being Held Past Their Conditional Release Date, Their Are Options Over a week ago, new guidance was issued to inmates in federal prison, prison staff, and the public at large on BOP.gov. BOP director Billy Marshall issued guidance that cleared the air around a massive question: First Step Act and…
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RDAP, Gun Charges & Enhancements The short answer is no. RDAP is the Residential Drug Abuse Program, which is offered in several federal prisons around the country. It’s nine months long in prison, followed by a second part of the program which continues in halfway house and/or home confinement placement. Completion of the program qualifies…
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Here is the new Internal Guidance Issued to the Bureau of Prisons From Director Billy Marshall On June 17, 2028 Federal Prison Director Billy Marshall issued this new publicly facing guidance that superceded guidance issued on May 28, 2025 in regards to home confinement, First Step Act (FSA) and Second Chance Act (SCA). The strongly…
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R. Kelly – On The Brink? New information is developing in the R. Kelly case after his lawyer claimed he was allegedly poisoned by federal prison officials at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butham, North Carolina. According to the USA Today report, sourced by Kelly’s attorney, Kelly was rushed to the emergency room after…
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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,…
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New BOP Director Billy Marshall updated the BOP programming statement on clemency and commutation of sentence, Programming Statement PS 1330.15. This comes on the heels of the widely expected clemencies in the coming months. As the world knows Former President Biden commuted the sentences of over 6500 individuals before the end of his term. As…
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As is customary, the BOP is generating more confusion around its implementation of the First Step Act, Second Chance Act, and how time credits will be applied to halfway house placement and home confinement through two conflicting memos. Are we finally moving in the right direction? Let’s break down what was said. William K. Marshall’s…
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Federal Prison Director Marshall Issues New Guidance to BOP Staff If your inmate is still being denied conditional release date click here now Washington DC May 28, 2025. The Director of the embattled Federal Bureau of Prisons, William “Billy” Marshall III issued system wide guidance today that outlines a reinvestment into interpreting the First Step…
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The Self Proclaimed “Grievance King” of Federal Prison sits down with Kyle from Federal Prison Tips 16 Kilos of heroin? 26 Federal Prisons, 80 grievances in one night is Wesley Todd from Florida Prison Consulting for real? Is he full of shit? Is he a snitch? Kyle Sandler the founder of Federal Prison Tips sat…
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White Collar’s “Drug Conspiracy” Over 50,000 inmates in Federal Prison are there because of a “drug conspiracy”. Many of those inmates in Federal Prison don’t know their co-defendants, may have never actually been caught with drugs, money or guns or sold to a confidential informant. They made it into federal prison on the sworn testimony…
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We’ve had over 150 Early Terminations Granted In The Last Year, Over half the Probation Officer has Opposed. Just about every inmate that comes out of Federal Prison has a term of supervision after release. The supervision can be tricky, some POs are good but others aren’t so much. When you’re doing the things you’re…
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Public Comments Open On 2025 Sentencing Amendments Until March 18, 2025 here Every year the United Sates Sentencing Commission proposes new sentencing guideline amendments. Those amendments follow the same calendar schedule, every year. The amendments are proposed in January/February. The public can comment until March. The amendments are voted on in May. Retroactivity is voted…
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2490 Adults In Custody Received Clemency on Friday January 17, 2025. We’ve had so many contacts asking us when they will get out. There are a wide variety of dates. Some inmates are being released on mass release dates starting February 17, 2025. Others had their sentences readjusted. The new total sentence is from the…
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Here is the official clemency list from whitehouse.gov which includes 2490 individuals. NAME REG. NO. JOHN ABNEY 59761-056 REGINAL ALEXANDER 28519-171 NEKHENT ALI 34432-057 BILLY ALLEN 29202-076 BURNELL ALLEN 33006-034 RANDOLPH ALVIN 18035-104 HERB ANDERSON 19119-078 JONATHAN ANDRADE 00556-138 DERWIN ANDREWS 55918-510 KODY ARDOIN 26348-078 DONTAY ARMSTRONG 35349-058 DURANDELL ARMSTRONG 10972-510 ADRIAN ARRINGTON 73982-509 STOKLEY…
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Snitching On Moms, Snitching on Partners The Opioid Pandemic Was Messier Than It Seemed Federal Prison Tips founder and host of Beyond The Narrative: Crime and Punishment, sat down with Jason Votrobek, one of the money men behind the nationwide opioid pandemic that originated in Florida. The George brothers are the most well known names…
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Federal Prison Tips Doesn’t Just Give Tips Off The Internet We Help Free People, Over 150 of them to date Federal Prison Tips is all about helping people, mostly “newbies” understand the federal prison process. What will they be facing as they go from federal court to federal prison? This is all based on the…
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Changes Proposed to Inmate Financial Responsibility Program The IFRP or Inmate Financial Responsibility Program is the program in the Federal Bureau of Prisons where the BOP takes money out of an inmates “trust fund” or “commissary” account to cover court costs, fines and restitution. The IFRP program was implemented in 1987 to ensure that inmates…
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This Clip From HBO’S Generation Hustle Explains Why I Didn’t Get To Self Report To Federal Prison Many of our clients, supporters and followers on social media are facing Federal Prison and are able to self report after sentencing. In many of our 800 tip videos across Tiktok, Instagram and Youtube talk about self reporting,…