Category: Inmate Life
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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…
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We wonder all the time: why do so many inmates feel compelled to go sideways on their case manager? When it comes to individual positions and authority, the warden and the captain of any given prison might have the most power and influence over day-to-day prison life. But, it’s your case manager who has the…
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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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When It Comes To The BOP, There’s No Immediate Gratification What many inmates and inmate’s families need to understand is that immediate gratification doesn’t exist when it comes to issues regarding federal prison. For instance, the purported changes in applying FSA and SCA benefits. One week ago, Rick Stover called Federal Prison Tips founder Kyle…
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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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Where To Best Report Prison Issues We get hundreds of emails, DMs, voicemails, and messages about ongoing issues happening to loved ones in the federal prison system. I was asked to use my platform to convey to our community that there’s places to go when you have complaints and concerns about the safety and security…
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How Can You Maximize Your Pay In Federal Prison? Many federal prisons require their inmate population to work. This is especially relevant at federal prison camps. At all federal prisons, if you’re working a regular job outside of UNICOR, you’re working on a pay scale starting at Grade A, which is 12 cents per hour,…
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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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What is a Federal Prison Camp, Anyway? A federal prison camp (FPC) is also known as a minimum security facility. Generally, they have the most relaxed enforcement of rules, and the easiest prison culture for all walks of life to integrate into. Still, there are a few things to always keep in mind. Stay away…
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Do Incident Reports Or “Shots” Affect Me During My Sentence? The question really is – how could they not? It’s incredible how many inmates don’t think an incident report, also known as a “shot,” is serious business when it comes to their time. A shot in federal prison can affect your custody classification (sending you…
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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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Know What You’re Getting Into This is for those who are sitting at home on pretrial or waiting to self report, thereby meaning you’ve received some sort of bond. Those who might be watching this from inside federal prison have probably already learned these facts via conversations with other inmates, or simply by observing daily…
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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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Cash App Payments, Legality, & If We Accept Them You’ve probably heard from other TikTok creators in the prison space that you can go to prison for sending or receiving cash app payments from somebody in prison, whether it’s state or federal prison. The truth is, there’s no actual law on the books in regards…
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Who Benefits From Keeping Inmates Locked Up? There’s lots of misinformation floating around inside prison walls, and these “facts” get used to justify observations made by the BOP. Inmates have nothing else to do, and think they know what they’re talking about, then start passing around theories as truth. We’re here to set the record…