Category: Halfway House
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It’s Not Up To The BOP Immigrants, undocumented illegals, whatever you want to call them – there seems to be a big problem in the Bureau of Prisons understanding the law and how it applies to this group of people. Our friend Walt Pavlo over at Forbes.com, who writes the Prisonology column, wrote an article…
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When Does Halfway House Time Begin? Ninety seven percent of inmates in federal prison will one day find themselves in the hallways shown in the video above – a federal halfway house. The one shown here is Banyan Halfway House in Miami, Florida. Banyan houses inmates in the Southern District of Florida. Following the First…
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Hint: It’s Rarely 100% For many years, an inmate in federal prison had to do 85% of their sentence. For inmates who behaved, caught no shots or further charges, this applied across the board. Since 2022 and the near-complete implementation of the First Step Act (FSA), that number can be as low as 52% in…
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Without A Doubt, The Answer Is Yes If an inmate gets a shot, the colloquial term for an incident report after breaking a rule, they will lose their halfway house placement date. Once an inmate has been given their halfway house placement date, it’s time more than ever to cut the crap and stay on…
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Home Sweet Home Home confinement comes in two different varieties – one is far more common than the other. If you’re an inmate in federal prison and headed to home confinement due to the Second Chance Act (SCA), First Step Act (FSA), or a combination of both, you should be aware of the kinds of…
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100-Series Shots And The Second Chance Act 100-series shots absolutely affect your community confinement time under the Second Chance Act. When evaluating how much time an inmate will spend in community confinement (halfway house and home confinement), case managers use a tool called the “Five-Factor Review.” This uses an inmate’s history before and during prison…
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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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Leaving In Style Normally, when you’re released from federal prison, you get on the bus in a gray sweatsuit and a mesh bag hanging over your shoulder. We recently had someone ask – can you send your loved one some different clothes to wear when they’re released? The answer is yes! But, you can’t just…
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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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So, What’s the Deal? Can the First Step Act, or FSA, get an inmate in federal prison under a mandatory minimum? Yes. For instance, if you got a mandatory minimum on a drug conspiracy for 10 years without a firearm or a leadership role, you would be fully FSA eligible. You will also benefit from…
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The Rules Have Been Made Clear Billy Marshall, the new director of the federal prison system, has put the hammer down on unit teams across the country. For context: on May 28, 2025, Marshall issued guidance saying that the BOP would now honor the conditional release dates for both the FSA, then the SCA. Later…
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BOP Listed Out Dates Change. What’s The Deal? We got this comment, or rather, question, on our TikTok comments earlier this week. It’s common knowledge to those who’ve had the Federal Prison system affect their life or family member’s life, but worth reiterating to those who are new to the system. The First Step Act…
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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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After Doing Time Himself, Jelly Roll Gives Back To The Incarcerated Some celebrities support the justice impacted because they think it’s cool or the “in thing” to do. Not country and hip hop sensation Jelly Roll. The 39 year old, Jelly Roll, did time himself on drug charges and now goes an extra mile (or…
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FIrst Step Act Allows for “years and years” of RRC according to BOP Director Colette Peters (it’s in the above video). The First Step Act of 2018 is the first significant form of Prison Reform legislation in over three decades. The FSA allows for eligible inmates in federal custody to earn “earned time credits” against…
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There are some disillusioned people out there that believe that Federal Inmates re-entering society have somehow hit the benefit jackpot. That could not be further from the truth. There are several organizations out there, even grants and programs, for state inmates, provided for by individual states. For example, one of the most succesful re-entry organizations…
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President Joe Biden’s, Federal Bureau of Prisons, failures to correctly implement The First Step Act (passed in December of 2018), are costing the taxpayers billions of dollars, says former Trump Aide Peter Navarro from FPC Miami. Back on March 20, 2024, former White House Aide and Economist Peter Navarro, reported to FPC Miami to begin…
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If you have a loved one in Federal Prison you’re probably beginning to learn how the “unit team” and most BOP case managers operate. Unfortunately, it’s not the way we would like. It’s hard to get a straight answer on halfway house. So many Federal inmates hear from their case managers that they have been…