Category: Prison Consulting

  • Kyle And Federal Prison Tips

    Whats Going On At Federal Prison Tips It’s no secret that on February 1, 2026 I was attacked and I lost vision in my left eye permanently. There’s a lot of crazy rumors going on around the internet about me. Today my eye is still sealed shut but they will be unsealing it soon but…

  • Meet Federal Prison Tips Legal Services Director Leo

    Nearly A Decade Of Experience In White Collar Cases With “The Firm” Helps Set Federal Prison Tips Apart Leo Bucheiri is the new fulltime Legal Services Director at Federal Priso Tips, your number one source for Federal Prison News, Information and post conviction relief. Educated overseas and with nearly a decade of experience in the…

  • Answering The Question: Am I Going To A Camp? Low? Medium?

    There’s Lots Of Scores – Only One Matters We recently had a question posed to us in our Facebook Group, also called Federal Prison Tips. If you haven’t already joined this group, do so today by clicking this link. The question was as follows: 26 level what prison security will I go to I got…

  • Why Can’t Legal Professionals Make Any Guarantees?

    When It Comes To Court, Nothing Is Certain Whether you’re in prison or facing federal prison, there’s a number of reasons why anyone who does legal work can’t provide any kind of guarantee. Oftentimes people forget, especially inmates or defendants, that judges are just people, too. If something bad happens that day, if they wake…

  • How Do The Feds Keep Up A 96% Conviction Rate?

    Why Is Their Conviction Rate So High? Are the feds really that good? How do they have a 96% conviction rate? Does the FBI, DEA, Homeland Security, and all other federal agencies really have the best investigators in the world? Is that why they have a 96% conviction rate and why there are 155,000 inmates…

  • What is the 30 Day Rule For Compassionate Release?

    The “30 Day Rule” For Compassionate Release Explained When trying to file a compassionate release motion as a defendant and as an inmate in federal prison, there’s a “30 day rule” that must be abided by before moving forward. The First Step Act of 2018 modified the compassionate release statute, 18 U.S.C. 3582(c)(1)(A) by allowing…

  • Tips For Changing Your Plea Agreement

    Don’t Let Them Pull a Fast One on You There are a few things you should look out for when reviewing your plea before you file a motion for a change of plea in federal court to minimize your time in federal prison. While plea mitigation is one of the services in all three consulting…

  • Getting An Extension on a Self Report Date

    Is it possible to get an extension for your self-surrender date to federal prison? If you’ve been to court for sentencing, came out on bond with your self-report date, but need an extension, yes, you can get an extension. There are a handful of reasons for which courts are amenable to granting an extension. Federal…

  • How To Get A Public Safety Factor Removed In Federal Prison

    Is it possible to get a public safety factor removed when you’re in federal prison? This is a question we get often. There’s nuances to this question. Was it added by your case management team by mistake? If so, then yeah, sometimes paperwork can be pushed and it can be removed. For instance, we had…

  • Can a Medical Marijuana Card Save You From a Probation Violation?

    Many think a medical marijuana card is enough to excuse marijuana use during supervised release. There’s more to the story – just because you’re on the outside, you aren’t free from the system and its consequences. Medical Marijuana and Supervised Release Although marijuana is recreationally legal in several states and medically legal in even more,…

  • Federal Prison Director Updates Clemency Initiative

    New BOP Director Billy Marshall updated the BOP programming statement on clemency and commutation of sentence, Programming Statement PS 1330.15. This comes on the heels of the widely expected clemencies in the coming months. As the world knows Former President Biden commuted the sentences of over 6500 individuals before the end of his term. As…

  • Intended Loss in Federal Prison

    White Collar’s “Drug Conspiracy” Over 50,000 inmates in Federal Prison are there because of a “drug conspiracy”. Many of those inmates in Federal Prison don’t know their co-defendants, may have never actually been caught with drugs, money or guns or sold to a confidential informant. They made it into federal prison on the sworn testimony…

  • Early Termination Granted Again

    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…

  • Freed Again: Another Satisfied Repeat Customer

    Federal Prison Tips Doesn’t Just Give Tips Off The Internet We Help Free People, Over 150 of them to date Federal Prison Tips is all about helping people, mostly “newbies” understand the federal prison process. What will they be facing as they go from federal court to federal prison? This is all based on the…

  • Here We Grow Again: New Phone Number

    To Reach Federal Prison Tips Staff call 407-434-0175 When we started Federal Prison Tips, Federal Prison Consultants we never imagined we would grow so quickly. Today we see over 2 million views per month on TikTok, have a very active tiktoklive (Sundays at 8pm Eastern and Monday-Thursday at 6pm Eastern). To facilitate that we’ve needed…

  • Something You Need To Look For In Your Plea Agreement

    The U.S. Attorney and the Assistant U.S. Attorneys are not your friends. No matter how nice they seem, when they’re meeting with you or negotiating with your lawyer, they are not on your side. They are on the opposing side, the side of the United States Government. There are a lot of things that you…

  • Custody Score Determines Your Federal Prison Placement

    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…

  • A Prison Consultant, What’s That?

    Before I went to Federal Prison in 2018 I had no idea that prison consultants were a thing. In fact the only one I had heard of at that time was RDAP Dan because a couple people I was in the county jail with were using him. Personally, I had so many questions and was…