Category: Inmate Life
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Congresswoman Is Fed Up With BOP’s Management During Shutdown Congresswoman Summer Lee of Pennsylvania is demanding answers from the director of the federal prison system, William K. Marshall III. In a statement posted on her website today directed to the director of the BOP, the Congresswoman wants to know specifically if the quality of inmates’…
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A Quick Explanation We recently were asked in our Facebook group: “Do they have tablets in camps? Do they provide them or do you have to buy them?” You can join our Facebook group here. It’s active every single day with families in similar circumstances supporting each other and answering one another’s questions. Every security…
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Shutdowns Affect Us All. Let’s Put A Stop To This. During federal government shutdowns, the pardon office is closed, courts are moving slower, and for ongoing cases, the government often asks for stays until the shutdown is over. No one, in any job role, likes to work without being paid. However, it should be noted…
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Yep, Firing Ranges Few inmates mention this, but there is a scary reality that the majority of inmates experience while incarcerated in federal prison. Every federal prison complex in the country has a firing range. Some are located closer to the prison than others. Sometimes it’s off in the distance, other times it’s too close…
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What Is The System? How Does It Work? The “email” system in federal prison functions through the federal prison operating system called TRULINCS, and is only available on computer systems in dedicated rooms set up in each housing unit. As it currently stands, this system cannot be accessed through the SCORE-7c tablets that can be…
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Is It Related To The Government Shutdown? We’re getting a lot of reports lately about commissaries across the country having next to nothing in stock. Almost everyone on our team here at Federal Prison Tips has been through this, and there’s nothing more frustrating – especially on days when the prison meals at the chow…
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Remember, Your Job Is Not To Punish Inmates We recently saw a post on TikTok from a recently hired prison guard seeking advice. This person also happened to be young, which means starting on the right foot and finding positive influences is even more important. Here’s what we have to say about that. If you’re…
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About Compassionate Release 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) Compassionate release is codified in law at 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) and described in section 1B1.13 of the United States Sentencing Guidelines. It’s a set of rules which provides inmates an avenue to file a motion seeking a change in their sentence from their sentencing judge based on a prescribed…
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The Population Is Aging Everywhere – Including Prison Over the last 30 years, the number of older people in federal prison, classed at 55 years old or older, has exploded from 3% in 1991 to 15% today. By 2030, the Bureau of Prisons is expecting one in three inmates to be over the age of…
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Is It Good For Inmates? Following the story of the BOP terminating the master agreement with the council of Prison Locals 33, the union that represents BOP correctional officers and staff within federal prisons across the country, we wanted to clear up what this means. The agreement was terminated upon executive order by President Trump.…
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What’s The Problem Now? By now, everyone knows that Federal Prison Director Billy Marshall issued a memorandum back in June and posted it on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. This memo directed case managers in the BOP to stack First Step Act (FSA) and Second Chance Act (SCA) benefits to provide inmates the maximum…
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The Rules Are Strict, Unless Medical Says Otherwise Many inmates in low and medium security federal prisons are required to wear a khaki uniform and approved boots during work hours – at some institutions, even when you’re at your own bunk. But, there are exceptions. If you’re a diabetic with neuropathy, or can prove you…
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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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Understanding The State Of Video Visits In Federal Prison As it stands today, unfortunately, there are no video visits in men’s federal prisons, and there’s no given time frame in which we can expect this to become available. Now, women’s prisons have had video visits through the TRULINCS kiosk for the past four years. The…
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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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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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Use Administrative Remedies Sparingly Don’t overuse administrative remedies in federal prison – regardless of who told you otherwise. We recently had someone in one of our Facebook groups talking about using administrative remedies and appealing to Congress for small issues that happen to their inmate in federal prison. Even though Josh Smith, Deputy Director of…