New Federal Prison Preparation Course, “How to Survive Federal Prison” Offerred by Jail Time Consulting!

Jail Time Consulting announced today a new interactive fast tract course to prepare white collar defendants for federal incarceration. This, first of a kind course, instructs white collar offenders how to survive and endure life in a federal prison. The course is appropriately named, “How to Survive Federal Prison”, prepares both the defendant and his entire family for the arduous transition that is about to occur. No one is fully prepared for what is about to happen. You realize that you are going to prison and you face incarceration, but you have no idea of the process involved, what to expect, and how to deal with the overall situation. You are experiencing fear, apprehension, and anxiety. How will your family go on without you? What will federal prison be like? Will I get raped? Will I get assaulted? Will I get stabbed? Are there gangs that I have to pay? How will I get along without my family? You are facing a situation in which you have absolutely no control. You have heard many stories about prison life from books, television, movies, and the news media. Is it really like Oz, Prison Break, or the Shawshank Redemption? You don’t know what is true and what is false and worse yet, you don’t know where to go to get the truth. It is the fear of not knowing that is adding to your mounting fear and apprehension.

Now white collar offenders have a place to go to get the facts, truth, and knowledge. Michael Frantz, a Federal Prison Consultant and author of the course, said in a radio interview today, “This course is what white collar offenders have been waiting for. After months and months of preparation, research, and interviews with white collar defendants and inmates, we now have a cutting edge course in preparing both defendants and their families for federal incarceration. In addition, we have been able to make the course exceedingly affordable.”

“How to Survive Federal Prison” consists of seven different components or modules and is available to the defendant and his family for a total low price of only $495.00. “How to Survive Federal Prison” is an interactive course that combines written information, documents, materials, and JT Special Reports© to the client and his family followed by one-on-one personal meetings or telephone sessions with a Federal Prison Consultant to address all their questions and concerns.

Michael Frantz stated that the course is adaptable and is customized to each and every one of Jail Time’s clients. Each client is unique, each case is different but every client receives the same dedication and individual attention that he or she deserves. Since Jail Time Consulting’s clients come from all backgrounds; rich, poor; famous, not so famous; white-collar, blue-collar; the course must be flexible and relevant to the specific federal institution the client is designated to. Michael Frantz emphasized, “If the client is going to a Federal Prison Camp, the course is geared to life in a Federal Prison Camp. If the client is designated to a low or medium security federal correctional facility—the course is geared towards surviving in that security level institution. Why does a client need to know how to survive in a United States Penitentiary if he is in a Federal Prison Camp? The fact is he doesn’t!  We don’t waste our client’s valuable time teaching them things that they will never use or about situations that will never occur.”

Jail Time Consulting’s reputation is built on the people they serve and the results they get. They do not use scare tactics to enlist clients. They are straightforward, truthful, and they actually accomplish what they say they will do. As Consultant Frantz said, “Wouldn’t you really rather have it that way?”

Michael Frantz lists the seven components of “How to Survive Federal Prison” as:

•           Important Things First instructs the defendant on how to set up visitation, mail, and telephone privileges before entering prison as well as other essential inmate elements. 

•           Journey to Prison instructs the defendant on the process between sentencing and his arrival at his designated facility.

•           Arrival at Prison educates the defendant on nine essential issues he or she will be confronted with upon arrival including Prison’s Unwritten Rules. 

•           Prison Life explains life in federal prison including black market shopping, gangs, fights, sex, medical care, entertainment, furloughs, transfers, and how to get along with the BOP staff. Over 23 different prison aspects are covered in this section.

•           Preparing to Leave explains the Release Preparation Program and the process required to ensure proper departure transportation, clothing, gratuities, personal property and to verify that the inmate receives all his Good Conduct Time.

•           Post Prison Life revolves around the offender’s stay in a Halfway House, Community Sanctions Center, or Home Confinement and his period of Supervised Release. The important subject of Probation Officers is also discussed.

•           Ancillary Materials includes sections on Prison Terms and Inmate Language, the Second Chance Act, Questions and Answers, Avoiding the SHU (Solitary Confinement), and Snitches and Rats among others.

Michael Frantz indicated that the new “How to Survive Federal Prison” course is arriving at the perfect time for federal offenders. Frantz said, “The federal government currently has a 97% guilty plea rate in federal criminal cases. Federal prosecutors have over a 75% conviction rate following trial, and 91% of federal criminal defendants receive a prison sentence. It is no longer a question of will I go to federal prison, it’s a question of what is it like and how am I going to cope and survive federal prison? With statistics like those, isn’t it only prudent to participate in a top-flight course that will prepare you for federal prison. How can a federal criminal defendant afford not to?”

Information on the course including all the topics covered, pricing information, contact information, and payment options can be obtained by going to the Jail Time Consulting website, www.jailtimeconsulting.com.

About Jail Time Consulting:

Michael Frantz is a leading national Federal Prison Consultant with JT Consulting. The staff of JT Consulting provides consultation services, assistance, JT Special Reports©, as well as timely information to those individuals preparing for federal incarceration.  JT Consulting offers solutions to the problems that men and women facing federal incarceration are confronted with. They provide positioning for admission into the highly sought after 500-Hour Residential Drug Abuse Program. Mr. Frantz authored the widely used book on federal prison titled, “Jail Time, What you need to know…Before you go to federal prison.” It is currently available as both an E-Book and a paperback and is available on the JT Consulting website. He has also authored over thirty-five JT Special Reports© on various federal prison issues affecting both the inmate and his/her family as well as publishing over 24 articles nationally. He writes a daily blog on the Jail Time Consulting website and answers readers’ questions and comments. He can be reached at 954-522-2254, or at mike@jailtimeconsulting.com 

What’s New with the Second Chance Act?

The Second Chance Act was finally signed by President Bush in April of 2008. Well, over eleven months have passed and what has been accomplished? In actuality, almost nothing! The Second Chance Act was supposed to be a solid piece of bipartisan legislation.  This legislation was to help protect the rights of ex-convicts, provide education and reentry programs which in turn would help to lower the recidivism rate. A major aspect of the Second Chance Act was designed to improve federal prison offender reentry. It’s a good idea, but the federal government and the Bureau of Prisons must follow through, they haven’t. Money was to be set forth for new programs to assess each federal prisoner’s skill level including academic, vocational, health, cognitive, interpersonal, daily living, and related reentry skills.  Ask any federal inmate if any of these programs are up and running. The answer is no. The federal government recently spent billions and billions of taxpayer dollars to bail out the banks, auto dealers, and Wall Street in a matter of weeks if not days. These crooks are not even in federal prison. Yet eleven months have passed and little if anything provided in the Second Chance Act has been implemented.  

Another significant aspect of the Second Chance Act was to allow federal prison inmates up to one year in a halfway house to better enable them to adjust and acclimate to their reentry into the real world. Currently, federal prison inmates are only permitted 10% of their net sentence or six months of halfway house time, whichever is less. So with the passage of the Second Chance Act, I would presume that federal prison inmates are now receiving up to 12 months of halfway house time. Wrong!!  Nothing has changed. As a matter of fact, at a Sentencing Commission hearing in Washington, D.C. on July 15, 2008, the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, Harley Lapin, stated he anticipated no changes to the provision of a full year of halfway house for federal inmates. He stated that “certain studies” showed that it was not productive and it is actually less expensive to house federal inmates in a federal prison than in a halfway house.  Personally, I thought the Second Chance Act was about improving federal prison inmates’ reentry into society, not about the cost of incarceration. Sorry, Harley!

Another major provision in the Second Chance Act was to allow early release to eligible offenders over the age of 65 who have already served a total of at least 10 years or 75% of their prison sentence, whichever is greater. An eligible offender is defined as an inmate who is not a lifer, has not committed a crime of violence or a sex offense, does not have a history of violence, has not escaped or attempted escape, and that the Federal Government has determined that early release will result in a substantial net reduction of costs to the Federal Government. If you read between the lines, those inmates eligible for early release are those federal prison inmates who are elderly, in bad health, chronically or acutely ill, and are piling up huge medical bills for the Bureau of Prisons. The total number of eligible offenders is estimated to be only 650 federal prison inmates. This is only 0.32% (one-third of one percent) of the 201,000 inmates currently incarcerated in federal prisons.  

The United States has the world’s largest prison population. Ex-felons are currently stripped of civil rights, denied access to loans, college financial aid, job prospects, certain licenses, and other conduits for social improvement that most of us take for granted. The three-year recidivism rate is nearly 66% and the BOP is dragging its feet on the implementation of the Second Chance Act. An ex-convict’s crimes haunt him forever. Felonies committed at age 20 or 21 will follow him into his sixties. White-collar criminals are receiving longer sentences and are being prosecuted more vigorously, as they should. But leaving the system like it is, without the implementation of the Second Chance Act, robs a released inmate of his civil rights including the right to legally provide for his family. He has paid his dues, served his time, and given his “pound of flesh”. Isn’t it time he had a second chance?