Category: News
-
It’s Aimed At Making Reentry Easier Representatives Barry Moore (AL-R) and Herb Conway (NJ-D) have introduced a bipartisan bill to solve a big problem. It’s called the Bureau of Prisons Release Card ID Act. The idea is to give inmates, upon their release, a federal ID card that will be nationally recognized and valid for…
-
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,…
-
U.S. Sentencing Guidelines And The ACCA You may remember earlier this year when the United States Sentencing Commission proposed two key amendments. The first affected the armed career criminal enhancement and whether or not they could use state offenses as a predicate to either this enhancement or the 851 enhancement. The other proposed amendment dealt…
-
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…
-
Trump Downgrading Marijuana? USSC Says No No Retro and More When I was an inmate in Federal Prison I was a jailhouse lawyer and during that time (2018-2024) me and several other inmates relied on the information provided weekly from Jermey Gordon and Lisa Legal. We always knew we could trust those two sources over…
-
Free Commissary & An Even Bigger Prize Coming! At the beginning of July, we announced that three lucky winners would get a free month’s worth of commissary on their books, or their loved one’s books, if you follow Federal Prison Tips on Tiktok and/or Instagram and “like” as many posts as you can. Yesterday, we…
-
A Recap On Our Phone Policy Many families have reached out to say they’ve tried calling our office and nobody answers. Let’s make sure you’re calling the right number – we have 11 full time employees here at Federal Prison Tips, all of whom have been to federal prison. Several of them answer our phones…
-
Has The Day Finally Come? Have you heard the rumor that some felons may see their Second Amendment rights restored? Well, it’s 100% true. President Donald J. Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Pardon Attorney Ed Martin are teaming up together to discuss, reinstitute, and revitalize U.S.C. 925(c), which outlines the pathway in which non-violent…
-
Clearing Up The Confusion Just how many clemencies and pardons will President Donald Trump’s pardon office grant? There seems to be some confusion about this, even though there was a big story about it a few weeks ago. Joe Biden granted 6,600 clemencies before he left office on January 20, 2025. President Trump vowed to…
-
How Good Will A Lawyer Perform That Isn’t Being Paid At All Now that DOGE has completely imploded what does this mean for government oversight? Federal Prison Tips has received documentation confirming that CJA Appointed attorneys for federal defendants facing federal prison that can’t use the Federal Defender’s Office will not be paid until October…
-
Former CO Blows The Whistle & Gets Punished Apparently Ms. Smith, the unit manager at Yazoo Federal Prison Low in Yazoo, Mississippi, isn’t the only corrupt staff member at the complex. Former correctional officer Fred Chambliss from Yazoo, Mississippi, has gone to the FBI to report the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of…
-
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…
-
One Singular Line Item For The BOP As you’ve probably heard by now, the Big Beautiful Bill was passed this week in Congress and now will be enacted into law. It has a lot of tax provisions and political consequences we won’t get into. The one thing it gives the federal prison system is $5,000,000,000.…
-
Mass Emailing Gets Mass Deleted By The BOP It’s a bad day to be a newsletter distributor like Lisa Legal or Jeremy Gordon, who rely on TRULINCS and CORRLINKS to send their post-conviction law updates in newsletters to inmates in federal prison. About six months ago, the BOP limited the number of messages you could…
-
Two Winners Will Get $360 On Their Books July is Freedom Month here at Federal Prison Tips, and we’re giving two winners $360 of free commissary money – that’s enough to max out your spend for an entire month. All you have to do is like, share, and subscribe to Federal Prison Tips on Tiktok…
-
We’re All Fed Up With Prison Admins Ignoring Directives & Law Of all institutions to be ignorant of the law, and to have public servants act insubordinately to their superiors, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) should be the last on that list. Deputy Director Josh Smith has made it clear that those who continue to…
-
The BOP Was Hacked, Sensitive Data Was Leaked. Are We Surprised? News outlets are reporting that the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the agency within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that runs all 121 active federal prisons, has experienced a major data breach. According to Cybersecurity News and other reports, this data breach includes both…
-
If Your Loved One Is Being Held Past Their Conditional Release Date, Their Are Options Over a week ago, new guidance was issued to inmates in federal prison, prison staff, and the public at large on BOP.gov. BOP director Billy Marshall issued guidance that cleared the air around a massive question: First Step Act and…
-
Update To Programming Statement About Clemency On June 5th, 2025, the policies for commutation of sentence, otherwise known as clemency, were updated by Billy Marshall. The most pertinent element is that case managers cannot stop interested inmates from sending their applications to the U.S. Pardon Attorney’s Office. They are required to do so regardless of…
-
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…