If you have been sentenced and convicted as a federal felon, you know it has lifelong impacts. It makes it difficult to secure employment, and living with the label of ‘ex-con’ for the rest of your life closes off many opportunities. However, for some eligible offenders, there is a way to avoid traditional prison sentencing…

The First Step Act has given inmates and their families a fantastic chance to get a fresh start by providing them with more opportunities to shorten their prison terms, gain more good time credit, and has had programs reinstated to offer additional ways for these federal inmates to complete his prison sentence and leave prison…

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) estimates that 40 percent of federal inmates have diagnosable, moderate to severe substance abuse problems. As an attempt to lower the issues that come with substance abuse the BOP has programs in place, the most intensive and most beneficial of these programs is the 500-Hour Residential Drug Abuse Program,…

The Pre-Sentence Investigation (PSI) and the subsequent Pre-Sentence Investigation Report (PSR) is without a doubt the most dominant and definitive document used by the Court in determining a defendant’s federal prison sentence. The PSI is the defendant’s Bible. It is his life history as seen through the eyes of the probation officer authoring the report.…

The FIRST STEP act has passed, and President Donald Trump signed it into law on December 27, 2018.  We’re excited at the prospects this means for the reform of the US federal prison system. This act is the biggest piece of legislation since the Prison Rape Elimination Act and the first piece of legislation that…