Category: Federal Prison
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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…
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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…