Category: Prison Life
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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…
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White Collar Inmate In Federal Prison Gets Duped By The Government, Or Did He? With information by Dale Chappell We just has a client’s wife call us frantic over the holiday weekend. Her husband, a former Medical Doctor who is doing 72 months for “healthcare kickbacks” had around $7500 seized from his “Trust Fund Account”…
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Is Celebrity Federal Inmate Ghislaine Maxwell Still Getting Special Treatment The Special Treatment allegedly begins with the fact that Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20 year Federal Prison Sentence for aiding financier sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is being housed at a federal prison camp, or so many people think. The fact of the matter when it…
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If You’re A CO And Don’t Have A Colleague Nicknamed Robocop, It’s You – You’re Robocop Corrections1.com recently posted the question in this headline and received mixed reviews. Here at Federal Prison Tips, we have a ton of viewers who are correctional officers in federal prison. So, which one earns inmate respect – towing the…
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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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A Quick Explanation We recently were asked in our Facebook group: “Do they have tablets in camps? Do they provide them or do you have to buy them?” You can join our Facebook group here. It’s active every single day with families in similar circumstances supporting each other and answering one another’s questions. Every security…
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Yep, Firing Ranges Few inmates mention this, but there is a scary reality that the majority of inmates experience while incarcerated in federal prison. Every federal prison complex in the country has a firing range. Some are located closer to the prison than others. Sometimes it’s off in the distance, other times it’s too close…
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Every Day Counts. If your inmate or loved one in federal prison is currently incarcerated after being incarcerated in a county jail, and that county time was in service of the federal charges, they are entitled to that time coming off their federal prison sentence. There’s no such thing as “dead time,” or time incarcerated…
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What Is The System? How Does It Work? The “email” system in federal prison functions through the federal prison operating system called TRULINCS, and is only available on computer systems in dedicated rooms set up in each housing unit. As it currently stands, this system cannot be accessed through the SCORE-7c tablets that can be…
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Is It Related To The Government Shutdown? We’re getting a lot of reports lately about commissaries across the country having next to nothing in stock. Almost everyone on our team here at Federal Prison Tips has been through this, and there’s nothing more frustrating – especially on days when the prison meals at the chow…
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Remember, Your Job Is Not To Punish Inmates We recently saw a post on TikTok from a recently hired prison guard seeking advice. This person also happened to be young, which means starting on the right foot and finding positive influences is even more important. Here’s what we have to say about that. If you’re…
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Without A Doubt, The Answer Is Yes If an inmate gets a shot, the colloquial term for an incident report after breaking a rule, they will lose their halfway house placement date. Once an inmate has been given their halfway house placement date, it’s time more than ever to cut the crap and stay on…
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Is It Good For Inmates? Following the story of the BOP terminating the master agreement with the council of Prison Locals 33, the union that represents BOP correctional officers and staff within federal prisons across the country, we wanted to clear up what this means. The agreement was terminated upon executive order by President Trump.…
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It Generally Varies By Security Level There are primarily three different types of housing in federal prison, starting with the open dorm. You’ll see open-air dormitory housing in satellite camps and dedicated minimum security facilities. These kinds of arrangements consist of one big room with bunk beds in several rows. Each inmate in a federal…
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Understanding The State Of Video Visits In Federal Prison As it stands today, unfortunately, there are no video visits in men’s federal prisons, and there’s no given time frame in which we can expect this to become available. Now, women’s prisons have had video visits through the TRULINCS kiosk for the past four years. The…
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Religious Freedom Is Decently Well-Protected In Federal Prison When you begin your federal prison sentence at your final prison destination, you will need to self-identify your religion to the R&D department. They will note this in SENTRY. Your official religious designation is important so you can celebrate sanctioned days off work during religious holidays. For…
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Inmates Train Dogs In Some Federal Prison Locations The Federal Prison Camp in Montgomery and the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan Texas are just some of the federal prisons that offer the IMPACT Dog Training Program. The Impact Dog Training Program pairs a dog with an inmate trainer companion for 24 hour a day training.…
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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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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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By Benjamin McConley 18321-014 FCI Coleman Low When President Donald Trump signed the First Step Act into law, he didn’t just push through a piece of legislation, he cracked open the doors of a broken justice system. He gave America’s forgotten men and women a voice, a pathway, and for the first time in a…