Category: News
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Federal Prison Tips Founder Reveals Emergent Medical Need It may be because of my crime, or because of the things I learned from all of that Evidence Based Recidivism Reducing Programming and other Productive Activities that I participated in during my federal prison bid, but I have become ultra transparent in everything we do. While…
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From Bad To Worse: The Big Beautiful Bill Will Reduce Access To Healthcare In Prison There’s Beckley, Hazelton, Yankton, Beaumont, and so many more. More than two thirds of federal prisons across the country are in rural areas and rural communities. Some of the communities that house federal prisons rely on that prison for employment.…
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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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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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Criminal Indictments Potentially Involve LeBron James Recent reports have indicated that Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat Player Terry Rozier, and former NBA player Damon Jones have all been indicted in two separate indictments alleging crimes related to sports betting and an illegal poker game. The two indictments report criminal activity spanning 11…
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Strange Exceptions To The Rules, No Explanation – Yet Attorney General Pam Bondi has until the end of the month to explain why Ghislaine Maxwell is housed at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas, with a sex offender charge and a 20 year prison sentence. According to statute and BOP policy, sex offenders and…
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Addressing One Rumor At A Time Every year, the United States Sentencing Commission makes amendments to the United States Sentencing Guidelines, and every years those amendments take effect on November 1st. Throughout the federal prison system, a rumor mill lovingly referred to as Inmate.com churns out information without a reliable source that adds endless confusion…
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More Former Inmates In Government – Could It Help Fix This Mess? Here’s something interesting for you. Just recently, Robert Arnold, also known as former Sheriff Robert Arnold of Rutherford, Tennessee, has declared his candidacy for Congress in Tennessee after a multi-decade career in law enforcement. Robert Arnold once plead guilty to wire fraud, Hobbs…
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Do We Really Need More ICE Agents? Or More Correctional Officers? The Bureau of Prisons recently posted the photos displayed in the above TikTok link on their Facebook page, showing federal prison officers doubling as ICE agents in the field. According to all available data, there’s a nationwide shortage of correctional officers in the federal…
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Back in 2014, the Miami Herald published a story highlighting how Correctional Officer Cornelius Thompson was fired from the Department of Corrections in Florida for contributing to the death of an inmate after forcing him into a scalding hot shower. This is the same Cornelius Thompson who was escorted off the compounds at FCC Coleman…
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Diddy Sentenced To 50 Months In Federal Prison When Will He Be Home? Sean P. Diddy Combs was sentenced to 50 months in Federal Prison today in the Southern District of New York, after being found guilty of two counts of “Transportation to Engage in Prostitution”. He was acquitted of the more serious charges of…
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Shit Just Got Real At The BOP On September 25th, the Bureau of Prisons terminated the master agreement with the council of Prisons Locals 33, the union that represents correctional officers and staff members in the Bureau of Prisons. Previously, under the master agreement, anytime a major decision was paraded through the prison system, the…
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The Sale Continues – Today & Tomorrow Only! As some may know who have reached out to Federal Prison Tips for prison consulting services recently, we’ve been running a “secret sale” with prices discounted too steeply to advertise on the website long-term. After feedback from our fans and followers, we’ve extended this sale to those…
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I Was An Inmate In Federal Prison During 2 Government Shutdowns The government shutdown today October 1, 2025 which isn’t new there have been 5 government shutdowns in the last 10 years and I was personally an inmate in federal prison during two of them. The most notable was in 2018 which was featured on…
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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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Bad To The Bone Yes, that’s right. Superbowl Champion running back and kickoff returner Wendell Smallwood has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for stealing $645,000 in a PPP fraud scheme. Smallwood was playing for the Philadelphia Eagles when they made it to the Superbowl in 2017, but apparently, his career in football…
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Low Level Offenders May See Their Firearm Rights Restored Soon That’s right. President Donald Trump, Pam Bondi, and the Justice Department are working on restoring the firearm rights of some convicted felons under 925(c). Under federal law, anyone convicted of a felony, meaning a crime punishable by more than a year in prison, is automatically…
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In response to an Executive Order from President Trump signed earlier this year, today BOP Director William K Marshall III terminated the Master Agreement with Council of Prisons Locals 33 (CPL-33) the union that represents federal prison correctional officers. Many feel that this is a welcomed change for inmates and some staff who’ve witnessed first…
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Evidence Has Shown For a Decade That Longer Sentences Don’t Reduce Crime On Monday Lisa Legal moved this story about new legislation proposed in Congress to combat crime in Washington DC. The world has seen that President Trump has moved the National Guard into our nation’s capital, and 4 other United States cities to help…
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This Follows Officers Being Exposed To Dangerous Substance We just received work that three Bureau of Prisons correctional officers at the low security federal prison in Butner, North Carolina, had to seek medical attention last Friday. They were exposed to a fentanyl-like substance in the Grandville unit. The unit officer, along with two officers who…