Indictment: The Shock and Solution
I wasn’t sure what to do after my indictment. I really wish there was a resource I could have used to help me through this process. I hope this blog post provides some level of comfort, and acts a guide as to how to handle the immediate consequences of an indictment. I’m using my own […]
Welcome to Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp
Self Surrender Day – Lewisburg USP In this post, I will describe Lewisburg USP – satellite camp – Self Surrender Day I was in the driver’s side passenger seat of the car. My father was driving, and my mother was in the back. We took the right turn into the Lewisburg USP. I looked out […]
Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp – Daily Routine
I’m often asked about my daily routine in prison, so I thought I would write an article to describe it. My routine does not change, as I believe that repetition leads to personal and physical improvement. Keep in mind that we are currently in a modified lock down, as much of the camp remains closed. […]
Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp – How to Prepare for the SHU: A Primer to Thrive in Solitary Confinement
What is the SHU? The SHU stands for “Special Housing Unit”. This is essentially solitary confinement. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the SHU is being used to quarantine inmates, regardless of security classification. This means that if you are self surrendering to a camp, you should be prepared to spend at least 14 days in the […]
Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp: Characters in a Prison Camp
I have officially been incarcerated for over a month. Time really does fly by in prison. It literally feels like it was only yesterday when my parents dropped me off at USP Lewisburg. What are the other inmates like I’ve met some interesting people here. I have noticed one common characteristic that just about every […]
Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp: Federal Prison Camp Clothes
What do you wear in a federal prison camp? Are the clothes comfortable? Do I wear an orange jumpsuit? I am going to try to address the clothing situation in a camp. By the end of this post, I hope that your questions about clothing will be answered, and maybe it will alleviate some fear […]
Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp: Hopelessly Forgotten
The CARES Act, First Step Act and Compassionate Release are three big topics of discussion among inmates. These programs essentially allow non-violent inmates to go home early, on home confinement. Home confinement doesn’t mean freedom, though. It means that you spend the rest of your sentence in a home (notice I did not say in […]
Lewisburg Federal Prison Camp – What I Did Today
I am going to post exactly what I did today. It will be more like a journal entry, but I hope that it may give those individuals who have to report to a prison camp some peace. I know that during my pretrial/pre-sentencing/pre-surrender phase, reading blogs about a daily schedule gave me some peace. So […]
Zest For Life
Negativity leads to nowhere. And when there is literally nowhere to go (such as in prison), you can quickly turn things into a nightmare with the way you think. I’m surrounded by both positive and negative inmates. There is one key difference between the two; acceptance. Positive inmates have accepted that their old lives are […]
RDAP – The Granddaddy of Sentence Reduction
Sentence Reduction Opportunities Within the BOP, there are very few opportunities for sentence reduction. Other than the 15% off for good time, meaning no behavior infarctions, there is a program known as RDAP. RDAP can provide significant sentence reduction. Depending on how long an inmate has been sentenced, one can get up to a year […]