Prisonpedia: The Federal Prison System Encyclopedia

Prisonpedia

The free encyclopedia of the U.S. federal prison system: offender profiles, Bureau of Prisons facility guides, and a plain-English glossary of federal law and prison life.

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The Federal Process

How a federal case moves from charge to sentence.

• The criminal justice process
• Grand juries & indictments
• Plea agreements & trial
• Sentencing guidelines
• Self-Surrender Checklist
• Federal offenses

All of federal criminal law →

Life Inside 60+ terms

Programs, work, and daily life in plain English.

• RDAP drug program
• The SHU
• Commissary & money
• UNICOR prison jobs
• Email & calls (TRULINCS)
• Security levels explained

Full glossary →

Reentry & Release

Time credits, coming home, and clearing the record.

• The First Step Act
• Good time credits
• Halfway houses (RRC)
• Supervised Release
• Compassionate Release
• Expungement & record sealing

Pardons & clemency →

Facilities 130+ institutions

By who they house

• Women’s facilities24
• Men’s facilities123

By security level

• Minimum security · camps59
• Low security32
• Medium security29
• High security · USPs8
• Detention · admin · supermax19
• Medical · FMC6
• Closed facilities · historical14

By state

• Texas17 · California14 · Florida12
• All 34 states →

All facilities & how security levels work →

Notable Cases

Federal cases: the charges, the sentence, the facility.

• Jordan Belfort
• Bernie Madoff
• Elizabeth Holmes
• Sam Bankman-Fried
• Martha Stewart
• Changpeng Zhao

Browse by type

• White-collar crime65
• Cryptocurrency fraud7

All notable cases →

Prison Consultants

What a federal prison consultant does, and who does it.

• What they do & how to choose
• Sam Mangel
• Maureen Baird
• Walt Pavlo
• Christopher Zoukis
• Jack Donson
• Joel Sickler
• Marc Blatstein
• Alan Ellis

Consultant directory →