Category: Release and Re-entry
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You’ve Lost Enough Mail In Prison – Don’t Let That Happen As You Re-Enter Society What happened to Founder of Federal Prison Tips, Kyle Sandler, happens to inmates every day. While being from Montgomery to Forrest City, the BOP lost his driver’s license. When arriving at Butner, Kyle’s case manager demanded his driver’s license again.…
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And It’s Not Against The Rules If you’re fresh out of federal prison and on your term of supervised release, don’t forget that probation officers are allowed to lie to you. For example, Kyle Sandler’s probation officer told his mother that he wouldn’t be going back to prison following an incident that got him in…
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What It Looks Like And What To Expect Usually, before your loved one is ready to leave federal prison, a home inspection from the United States Probation Office will take place. They will need to verify a few things about the home that the soon-to-be-back-inmate will occupy. Once the inmate tells the prison the address…
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In Fact, The Biggest Changes In 30 Years Among the big changes coming from this year’s cycle of guideline amendments, the ones affecting supervised release are some of the biggest. The message being sent by these particular changes is that supervised release will now be about rehabilitation, not punishment. Beginning November 1st, being sentenced to…
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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…
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Home Sweet Home Home confinement comes in two different varieties – one is far more common than the other. If you’re an inmate in federal prison and headed to home confinement due to the Second Chance Act (SCA), First Step Act (FSA), or a combination of both, you should be aware of the kinds of…
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Addressing The Details Before You Leave Preparing to leave federal prison should start the day you arrive. But, here’s a pro tip. About halfway through your sentence, you need to make sure you don’t have any existing warrants or detainers. The BOP will not release you to a halfway house if these haven’t been addressed.…
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Federal Location Monitoring (FLM) Once home confinement enters the conversation, you or your loved one may start to hear about FLM, or Federal Location Monitoring. Home confinement from the First Step Act, which is contingent on accumulation of Federal Time Credits, and Second Chance Act, which is community confinement for 10% of the total sentence,…
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Can I Just Use My BOP ID? In short – yes. If you’re boarding a plane as a regular citizen, after May 7th of 2025, you need a Real ID. We got this question in our Facebook Group, also called Federal Prison Tips. As an inmate just leaving your former place of incarceration, you can…
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Or are they just a myth? Actually, there are good case managers in federal prison. Most think by the nature of the job, they can only be somewhere between okay and bad. And most will confirm this through their experience – the vast majority of case managers don’t seem to act with inmates best interests…
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Are you currently on supervised release after finishing your sentence in federal prison? Now, there’s talk that the supervised release statute will see changes in November 2025. But, if you’ve been on supervised release for a year or more on a Class C felony or two years or more on a class A or B…
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What Is The RRM Responsible For In My Situation? If you have an inmate in federal prison who is First Step Act or Second Chance Act Eligible, you need to read this. The RRM in the federal prison system, or Bureau of Prisons, is the regional reentry manager. That person is tasked with placing inmates…
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No Surprise: Case Managers Are Creating Confusion The technical and legal fact is that yes, undocumented inmates should receive benefits from the First Step Act and Second Chance Act, and can be placed in community confinement like a Halfway House. Assuming, of course, that the undocumented inmate’s offense allows qualification. However, case managers in the…
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Where Do Judges Draw The Line In Early Termination Of Probation? Some will tell you if you still owe restitution, you can’t get off federal supervision early. But as a matter of fact, we just recently saw one of our motions for this exact request granted in the Southern District of Texas. Not only that,…
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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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BOP Listed Out Dates Change. What’s The Deal? We got this comment, or rather, question, on our TikTok comments earlier this week. It’s common knowledge to those who’ve had the Federal Prison system affect their life or family member’s life, but worth reiterating to those who are new to the system. The First Step Act…
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Putting Together Your Appeal For Reduction of Sentence If you’re facing federal prison time and approaching the sentencing phase, filing a motion for sentence reduction, or working on a clemency packet, what should you include in letters to the judge? Or, alternatively, the President of the United States, or Pardon Czar Alice Marie Johnson, or…
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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,…
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Rod C was on his second federal prison bid and the government was strongly opposed to early termination, he was still granted based on the reply we helped him with.
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Yes in most states felons can vote check out this story at Federal Prison Tips to see how. you can vote