Category: Inmate Life
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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Billy Marshall On June 17, 2028 Federal Prison Director Billy Marshall issued this new publicly facing guidance that superceded guidance issued on May 28, 2025 in regards to home confinement, First Step Act (FSA) and Second Chance Act (SCA).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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We certainly could be! We heard that last week, the new director of the federal prison system, Billy Marshall, made an planned inspection of FCI Morgantown in Morgantown, West Virginia. But now, we’re hearing that Josh Smith, the deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons, made an unannounced spot check of McCreary over the weekend…
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Civil Unrest & Prison Lockdowns There are a lot of inmates in federal prison who haven’t been there for very long; now, many inmates who experienced COVID lockdowns and/or the unrest following the George Floyd incident have already been released to halfway house, home confinement, or their sentence has ended. In the past five years,…
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Putting Together Your Appeal For Reduction of Sentence If you’re facing federal prison time and approaching the sentencing phase, filing a motion for sentence reduction, or working on a clemency packet, what should you include in letters to the judge? Or, alternatively, the President of the United States, or Pardon Czar Alice Marie Johnson, or…
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We’ve had over 150 Early Terminations Granted In The Last Year, Over half the Probation Officer has Opposed. Just about every inmate that comes out of Federal Prison has a term of supervision after release. The supervision can be tricky, some POs are good but others aren’t so much. When you’re doing the things you’re…
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2490 Adults In Custody Received Clemency on Friday January 17, 2025. We’ve had so many contacts asking us when they will get out. There are a wide variety of dates. Some inmates are being released on mass release dates starting February 17, 2025. Others had their sentences readjusted. The new total sentence is from the…
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Changes Proposed to Inmate Financial Responsibility Program The IFRP or Inmate Financial Responsibility Program is the program in the Federal Bureau of Prisons where the BOP takes money out of an inmates “trust fund” or “commissary” account to cover court costs, fines and restitution. The IFRP program was implemented in 1987 to ensure that inmates…
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What Are Some Of The Things You Should Get On Your First Trip To Commissary In Federal Prison All 121 Active Federal Prison Institutions have some sort of commissary. The commmissary is the store that inmates goto to pick up the things they need like hygeine products, first aid products, recreational clothing, under garments, food…
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Yes in most states felons can vote check out this story at Federal Prison Tips to see how. you can vote
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Thousands of Inmates Have Been Held Well Beyond Their Conditional Release Date. On September 4, 2024, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) rolled out a new tool that they thought would really help both the case management divisions and most FSA eligible federal inmates. That’s not exactly how this went down. The Conditional Release date started…
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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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Humility Is One Of The Hardest Things For Many White Collar Offenders There are thousands of white collar offenders awaiting trial, sentencing and self report. Many of those offenders will be going to minimum security camps and low security prisons. But even in those spots, humility can be the toughest lesson for these kinds of…
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Here’s another pro tip for people heading to Federal Prison. If you’re here right now, it unfortunately means you’re probably looking at some time in Federal Prison. Here’s another pro tip for people heading to Federal Prison, especially those white collar, first time offenders. Do Your Time! It sounds simple enough, right? Well for some…
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Federal defendants come in all shapes, sizes and colors, and yes, even handicaps. There are quite a few handicapped inmates being held in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. So what happens if you’re handicapped and facing Federal Prison. First things first, start a relationship with Federal Prison Tips LLC, which can help you navigate your…
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Can you imagine going for three straight hours during the day without your smartphone in hand? That’s in fathomable right? Well when you get into Federal Prison you’ll be trading your smartphone for a wall phone and trulincs to communicate with the outside world. Wall Phone When you get to your placement in Federal Prison…
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If you’re worried about what security level Federal Prison institution you will be sent to, you need to first understand how that is determined. The Designation, Sentence and Computation Center (DSCC) in Grand Prairie Texas takes several data points, primarily from your PSR, to develop a custody score. That custody score is what determines the…
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With First Step Act Credits Available, Inmates are balking at RDAP because of the snitching. RDAP is the Residential Drug Abuse Prevention Program. It’s a 9 month, intensive, redidential program in which all of the inmates in a particular cohort live in the same dorm, together, to form a therapeutic community. As with any community,…
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Tips For Self Surrendering To Federal Prison Congratulations, although it doesn’t feel like you’re lucky, because you’re headed to Federal Prison, you’re one of a few thousand Federal defendants who were eligible to self report to your BOP institution. While a good number of federal defendants do get to go out on bond, many of…
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Award Winning Documentary About Former Federal Inmate Cindy Shank Highlights The Problems with Biden’s Mandatory Minimums This morning I took 86 minutes of my life to watch the most important movie I have ever seen. The movie, The Sentence, is an award winning documentary about the plight of Cindy Shank a mother of three beautiful…
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3 Things That Will Help You Survive Federal Prison For some, heading to Federal Prison will be a complete culture shock. White collar criminals specifically, come from all different walks of life, but typically, many of them are used to having power and stature. When they get to Federal prison though, they’re just like everyone…