Category: Prison Life
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Prison Yard Politics Are No Joke Our receptionists get calls from loved ones all the time who worry about what their loved one needs to do once they hit a federal prison yard. Who should they run with? Where should they spend their time? Where should they eat? What are the do’s and don’ts in…
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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…
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Life in the Segregated Housing Unit The SHU, short for “Segregated Housing Unit,” is where you go for a number of reasons, including disciplinary segregation, administrative segregation, quarantine, and sometimes, when you’re new to the compound. The most common reason a federal inmate might find themselves in the SHU is for disciplinary reasons. This can…
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What Do You Have To Do To Survive A Prison Term? Those are the only three things you need to know to survive and thrive throughout the course of your federal prison sentence. This comes from Kyle Sandler, founder of Federal Prison Tips, who is gay, Hawaiian, and Jewish. Utilizing this advice, he survived two…
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Prison Skills For The Real World. Do They Exist? Are you, or your loved one, in federal prison? Can any of those classes actually help you in the real world? Programs vary widely. Prisons with a UNICOR program are sought after for a reason – they actually have a bonding program for inmates that helps…
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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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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…
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Here is the official clemency list from whitehouse.gov which includes 2490 individuals. NAME REG. NO. JOHN ABNEY 59761-056 REGINAL ALEXANDER 28519-171 NEKHENT ALI 34432-057 BILLY ALLEN 29202-076 BURNELL ALLEN 33006-034 RANDOLPH ALVIN 18035-104 HERB ANDERSON 19119-078 JONATHAN ANDRADE 00556-138 DERWIN ANDREWS 55918-510 KODY ARDOIN 26348-078 DONTAY ARMSTRONG 35349-058 DURANDELL ARMSTRONG 10972-510 ADRIAN ARRINGTON 73982-509 STOKLEY…
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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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After Doing Time Himself, Jelly Roll Gives Back To The Incarcerated Some celebrities support the justice impacted because they think it’s cool or the “in thing” to do. Not country and hip hop sensation Jelly Roll. The 39 year old, Jelly Roll, did time himself on drug charges and now goes an extra mile (or…
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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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On Thursday, President Joe Biden, signed into law, the Federal Prison Oversight Act. The legislation, proposed by Senator John Osoff, among others, is designed to strengthen accountability for the plagued Bureau of Prisons, a division under the Department of Justice, which oversees 122 locations and 162,000 Federal Inmates. The Federal Prison Oversight Act has three…
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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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Most of our clientele, and our audience for that matter, are non-violent, first time offenders. Many of them are white collar offenders, and an overwhelming amount of them are headed to minimum security camps and FCI Lows. However, undoubtedly they all go onto social media and see all of the “prison” content creators. Some of…
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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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There are some disillusioned people out there that believe that Federal Inmates re-entering society have somehow hit the benefit jackpot. That could not be further from the truth. There are several organizations out there, even grants and programs, for state inmates, provided for by individual states. For example, one of the most succesful re-entry organizations…