Category: Federal Prison
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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…
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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…