BOP Furloughs-An Inmate’s Legalized Prison Escape!

Michael Frantz, a Federal Prison Consultant for Jail Time Consulting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, recently spoke to a group of concerned individuals about the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) Furlough Program. This is a program that allows minimum security inmates to leave prison and go home to stay with their families for one day, three days or five day increments. 

The Bureau of Prisons has developed a furlough program which is intended to help the inmate attain his or her correctional goals. Michael Frantz said, “A furlough is not a right but a privilege granted an inmate under prescribed conditions. It is not a reward for good behavior, or a means to shorten a criminal sentence. A furlough is defined as an authorized absence from a federal prison by an inmate who is not under escort of a staff member, U.S. Marshal, or state or federal agents.”

There are two main types of social furloughs. The first type of furlough is the Day Furlough. The Day Furlough is a furlough within the geographic limits of the commuting area of the federal prison (approximately a 100-mile radius), which lasts 16 hours or less and ends before midnight. The inmate may be picked up by his family and travel unescorted to his home. He may remain at his home with his family for sixteen (16) hours before reporting back to the institution that evening. The second type of furlough is an Overnight Furlough and can last up to seven (7) days. Normally, Overnight Furloughs are classified as three day furloughs or five day furloughs. The inmate may be picked up by his family and travel unescorted to his home. He may remain at his home with his family for the length of his furlough, either three (3) nights or five (5) nights before reporting back to the his federal prison.

Federal Prison Consultant Frantz also stated the eligibility requirements for federal inmates to receive a furlough. Michael Frantz said, “Eligibility for a Day Furlough requires that the inmate be at his current federal prison for one-hundred and eighty (180) days with clear conduct and he is within twenty-four (24) months of his anticipated release date. Eligibility for an Overnight Furlough requires that the inmate be at his current federal prison for one-hundred and eighty (180) days with clear conduct and he is within eighteen (18) months of his anticipated release date.”

An inmate may receive more than one furlough but the furloughs must be at least ninety (90) days apart. Inmates must also have minimum security and community custody to be eligible for a furlough. This means the inmate must be at a Federal Prison Camp.

Jail Time Consulting is a specialist in preparing applications for federal prison furloughs and will explain, inform, educate, and assist their clients in the preparation of the documents for social furloughs. Jail Time Consulting is an expert in the BOP’s social furlough policy, the eligibility requirements, custody and security requirements, and reasons for furlough justification, furlough conditions, required documentation, as well as the inmate return policy.

Jail Time Consulting also provides information and assistance in medical furloughs, transfer furloughs, and both escorted and unescorted furloughs. Michael Frantz said, “We have all the required forms including the Furlough Questionnaire (both “In” and “Out” of Sentencing District) as well as the Furlough Application. We have the Inmate’s Conditions of Furlough listing all the conditions and stipulations with which the inmate agrees to comply.” Jail Time Consulting provides information and/or assistance to all federal prison inmates with their furlough requests.

About Michael Frantz:  

Michael Frantz is a leading national Federal Prison Consultant with JT Consulting LLC (Jail Time Consulting) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The staff of Jail Time Consulting provides consultation services, research, sentence reduction strategies, and client positioning for many BOP programs. JT Consulting offers solutions to the problems that men and women facing federal incarceration are confronted with. These are solutions to real life issues affecting their families, their livelihood, and their future. Michael has authored a widely used book on federal prison titled, “Jail Time, What you need to know…Before you go to federal prison!” He has also authored over thirty-five JT Special Reports© on various federal prison issues affecting both the inmate and his/her family which are available on the website. He writes a daily blog on the Jail Time Consulting website  http://jailtimeconsulting.com answering readers’ questions and comments. He is a nationally recognized federal prison authority and has published over 24 articles nationwide. He can be reached at 954-522-2254, 800-804-4686, or at mike@jailtimeconsulting.com 

About Jail Time Consulting:

Jail Time Consulting is a national Federal Prison Consulting firm providing clear concise answers to your questions, fears, and concerns. We provide an ongoing reference and support system for your whole family. There is nothing that can completely eliminate all the anxiety and fear about the possibility of doing time in federal prison. Yet the insightful and timely information, support, and positioning we provide will help dispel the anxiety and fears that you are now facing.
 

Your attorney is charged with the task of preparing your case, negotiating possible plea agreements, and centering on the non-mandatory U.S. Sentencing Guidelines to determine your gross sentence calculation. He is uniquely disciplined and highly qualified in arguing your case before the court, developing defensive strategies, and reviewing your Pre-Sentencing Investigation Report (PSI/PSR). However, many attorneys are not fully knowledgeable in the Bureau of Prisons’ policies, procedures, and Program Statements. There are currently over 289 Bureau of Prison’s Program Statements. The staff of JT Consulting is experts in the BOP’s policies, procedures, and program statements. We are experts at positioning our clients for these valuable programs.

We prepare and position our clients for admission to the 500-Hour Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) which offers the inmate up to a 12 month sentence reduction and a 6 month halfway house designation. This has the net effect of reducing the client’s incarceration in a federal prison by up to eighteen months. JT Consulting works closely with the client’s legal defense team to provide the client with the best possible net sentence.  

Besides providing positioning for acceptance into the RDAP and other BOP programs, we also offer the “How to Survive Federal Prison” course which is a fast tract course that prepares the defendant and his family for federal incarceration. This is an interactive course which provides written information, documents, materials, and JT Special Reports© to the client and his family followed by one-on-one personal or telephone sessions to address all your questions and concerns. You can obtain information on this course by going to our website.

Jail Time Consulting also offers assistance in many other areas to not only position you for the possibility of the lowest possible net sentence but also to educate you on the transition to life in a federal prison. We can assist you in the important areas of Sentence Reduction Positioning, Facility Designation, program placement, perks and upgrades, inmate job selection, transfers, furloughs, visitation, telephone communication, and many other important areas.  We are not attorneys; we work in cooperation and conjunction with your attorney. Our goal is twofold—to prepare you for your incarceration in federal prison and to assist you in receiving the lowest possible net sentence. Please visit our website at www.jailtimeconsulting.com to preview what we can offer.

Prepare for Prison-New Course Helps Federal Defendants Prepare for Prison!

Jail Time Consulting announced today a new course designed for white collar defendants who are destined for federal incarceration. This course was developed  by a former federal prison inmate who learned how to survive and endure life in a federal prison. This former inmate is now a leading Federal Prison Consultant and the course he developed is named, “How to Survive Federal Prison”. This state of the art course prepares both the defendant and his entire family for the arduous transition to federal incarceration. The former inmate and now Federal Prison Consultant is Michael Frantz. Michael said in a news briefing today, “No one is fully prepared for federal prison. Federal defendants realize they are going to prison but have no idea of the process involved, what to expect, and how to deal with the overall situation. They and their families experience fear, apprehension, and anxiety. They think how will their families go on without them? What will federal prison be like? Will they get raped? Will they get assaulted? Will they get stabbed? Are there gangs that they will have to pay tribute to? How will they get along without their families? They are facing a situation in which they have absolutely no control. They know about prison stories from books, television, movies, and the news media. Is it really like Oz, Prison Break, or the Shawshank Redemption? They don’t know what is true and what is false and worse yet, they don’t know where to go to get the truth. It is the fear of not knowing that is adding to their 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 modules and is available at a 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? There is no more Club Fed, Club Fed is gone! 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 “How to Survive Federal Prison” including all the topics covered, pricing information, contact information, and payment options can be obtained by going to the Jail Time Consulting website.

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 

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 

Help For Federal Prison Inmates And Their Families!

Jail Time Consulting is happy to announce a new service and inexpensive product for keeping federal prison inmates, their families, and other concerned parties informed about the latest changes in federal prison programs and other federal prison related issues. Michael Frantz, a leading Federal Prison Consultant for Jail Time Consulting, just released thirty-five (35) new and updated informative articles on various prison topics affecting the lives of federal prison inmates and their families. These informative articles are called JT Special Reports©.  

Jail Time Consulting over the last three years has compiled a collection of comprehensive, in depth JT Special Reports© on a variety of Bureau of Prisons’ topics. These reports are relevant not only to new incoming defendants and inmates already sentenced to prison, but also to the general public. These JT Special Reports^© are available on a diverse range of subjects that affect the inmate and his family almost every day. They deal with immediate issues such as inmate telephone usage, inmate mail, and inmate visits. . For example, the JT Special Report on Inmate Visits provides a step-by-step procedure which the inmate must start before he comes to prison to ensure visits within the first few days of his arrival. In this way he will avoid the BOP pitfalls that happen to so many federal inmates. These pitfalls many times may delay initial inmate visits for weeks if not months. Complete instructions, helpful hints, and Bureau of Prisons’ forms are provided to ensure that the inmate is set up for these BOP programs immediately upon incarceration and not delayed days or even weeks. The reader is instructed what to do before he or she arrives at federal prison to avoid any bureaucratic Bureau of Prisons pitfalls or snafus. Other topics deal with inmate perks and upgrades, good conduct time, facility designation procedures, inmate furloughs, inmate transfers, inmate medical care, snitches and rats, the inmate financial responsibility program, prison’s unexpected costs, and inmate jobs.

Other important topics relevant to all new defendants that are covered in the JT Special Reports© are sentence reduction techniques including the 500-Hour Residential Drug Abuse Program, the Compassionate Release Program, and the Commutation of Sentence Program to name just a few.    

Michael Frantz said that new JT Special Reports^© are written, developed, and published as new programs are instituted by the Bureau of Prisons or as the need arises. Current JT Special Reports^© are updated as Bureau of Prisons’ rules and regulations change. Michael Frantz went on to say, “With over 289 Bureau of Prisons’ Program Statements it is hard for the inmate or the families of the inmates to keep up with all the new regulations, policies, and procedures. Each JT Special Report^© presents the subject matter in a truthful, factual, and candid approach”, Michael Frantz also emphasized, “They are not always flattering to the BOP, but they are straightforward, accurate, and honest. Wouldn’t you rather know the truth?” Each JT Special Report^© allows the reader to gain the knowledge and experience of all the incarcerated inmates who have already gone through this arduous transition. The reader gains the benefit of their experiences and frustrations and knows how to avoid them.     

Every one of the JT Special Reports© can be downloaded on the Jail Time Consulting website. Michael Frantz said that a strategic decision was made to price all of the JT Special Reports© at only $6.95 each. In this way they are very affordable to all individuals. Each report is between 25 and 40 pages long and contains invaluable information written in easily understandable terms for the reader. “Informative reports of this nature can be purchased elsewhere on the internet for as much as $60.00 to $75.00″, said Frantz.  Michael Frantz also commented that there is no charge to Jail Time Consulting clients for any of the JT Special Reports^©. Jail Time Consulting clients may simply call or email to have the report sent free of charge. A synopsis of each of the JT Special Reports© is available on the Jail Time Consulting website.