Federal Prison Camp: 12 Facts That Surprised Me

Federal Prison Camp: 12 Facts That Surprised Me
When I surrendered to federal prison in April 2008, I had no idea what to expect. Other than exercising and wanting to learn Spanish, I did not really have any goals.
Well, shortly after going in, I was pleasantly surprised at the many growth opportunities that existed. A number of things I witnessed on the inside also surprised me. That is the purpose of this video!
Things that surprised me, amongst others, include:
1: the fact that I could run a business
2: how some people could qualify for early release
3: the laziness and indifference from staff
4: how to build a network
5: how people will seek to keep you down
6: why I did not enjoy visiting in federal prison as much as I thought I would
7: and more!
If you are reading this and have been to federal prison, I would love to know some things that surprised you. Leave a comment and share.
Thank you,
Justin
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[@sampompeo9747]

Fact 7 is great. Jealous Prison guards are there for life but in time the inmates get to leave. Be grateful..

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Sam Pompeo sad fact, but true

[@OvercookedOctopusFeet]

Great video, why does this channel not have more subs? crazy.

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Thanks for watching. To subs, I don’t glorify or scare people about life in a prison camp. I address how to accept responsibility and how to properly mitigate. I’m grateful for each subscriber. Check out white collar advice tik tok for more prison stuff. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRCP4rwT/

[@blaker2335]

Nice to hear you had a few hours a day to spend alone since you don’t like being around people all the time!

[@BenMalleck]

Love your content

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Thank you!!

[@daviddinsbeer8751]

I served 30 months at FPC Pensacola. There are many very good points you made. One thing that I feel was critical to my successful sentence and time served was to just identify what was expected and just quietly drive in the lines. I was able to get a 2nd masters degree and also had the warden personally grant me a furlough. So many inmates spent all their time claiming false imprisonment or somehow they were the victim when the best way to serve your sentence is to not make waves and fly under all radars

[@b_collins7846]

Does it have a golf course??

[@acc4465]

I almost served 30 months once - I’m kidding - I make better decisions than the average dog.

[@geneland]

Was this prison air-conditioned?

[@helpyourcattodrive]

Thank you so much.

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

You’re welcome.

[@beachbum1523]

@ 6:05 - "Justin, please tell people to subscribe." Well, that time wasn't wasted. I stumbled across you vids a couple of years ago, been watching them ever since. You've even inspired to to reach out to help a relative of one of our neighbors who was released from Texas DCJ about a year ago. Somehow, I forgot to subscribe. Thanks for reminding! Peace!

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Thank you for watching and for commenting. Happy New Year!

[@vinnydegristini9407]

I love your videos. Are you from truckee ca? That’s actually where I was arrested and my case is in the eastern district. I love truckee tho

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Thanks for watching! I am from Los Angeles!

[@josephabdo6664]

Wow thank you for the vids def subscribed. This one helped me so much. I an about to plea on a white collar incident. Thank you for the knowledge I am taking notes and arming myself with your input. Thanks

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

You’re welcome. John our free weekly webinars on Thursday at 10am pacific. Send me text to 818-424-2220 and I’ll register you.

[@michaelspoto8720]

This is a stupid question but are you allowed to legally have any devices where you can listen to music? Particularly a device where u can use spotify or KZbin? I know ppl smuggle in phones but I imagine that would get you in lots of trouble. Thank you in advance if you read this comment.

[@sampompeo9747]

I like the living room view.

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Sam Pompeo Since Alyssa took over my office, I had no choice. Glad you like the look!

[@chuckhockey9464]

@@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial Makes you realize how hard some people's lives are

[@damian9303]

Totally not a green screen

[@santinojozefmiller7721]

White Collar Advice What did you go to federal prison for?

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

@@santinojozefmiller7721 I talk about why in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l33HpJJsgbhnhaM

[@janellrae9824]

Im going to FPC Alderson on July 8th

[@tattat44]

I'm going to Lompoc Camp for 10 years. When I get out I really want to do something else other than sell drugs. I'm gonna be 27 years and 2 days old when I surrender. I've been leaning toward real estate appraisal. How would you advise someone like myself to network and find new business and career opprotunities that will satisfy my huge ambition that has previously got me in huge trouble?

[@learnthrivecompassion422]

I was sentenced to Lompac camp also for drug distribution May have to self surrender in a month. Stay strong..

[@tattat44]

@@learnthrivecompassion422 Name's Matthew, I'll see you there 👍 :)

[@learnthrivecompassion422]

@@tattat44 Mario🙏

[@sinaloainc.6612]

Tatta44 You have a long stretch ahead of you, you will change your mind with several business ventures and ideas, you are young and that is ok to change your mind as often as you want to. At that camp you will come across many successful individuals whom come from many walks of life as it relates to business. Very intelligent people who have ran businesses all their lives. Im sure you will pick their brain and learn alot and at the end of your stretch, you perhaps will no longer desire to do real estate. Fill your brain with a new way of thinking, and leave that drug business behind, allow yourself to grow bro and consume as many information as you possibly can. Good Luck

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

great advice

[@Katie-vy5rd]

I've been working in medium state prisons as a travel nurse since covid and have enjoyed helping the patients. Wondering if the federal prison patient population would be much different. My guess is the federal population would be healthier which will make it a little less interesting. Working on an application now, not sure I could get a tour of the facilities prior to applying. Anyone out there with some input? BTW : love helping the patients who show gratitude, not because I expect it but when in prison your health is one of the only things you have and even if they don't say anything ... I can tell they appreciate good help and compassion. It has bothered me to see how many are treated so poorly in the facilities. I watched a documentary on college in prisons recently, I wish they would offer more opportunities like that to the people!

[@steveglazer4966]

I got sentenced to 13 months. Self surrender to Boron FPC January 2 1990 The camp was deactivated in 1999 Oh I did 10 months there plus one month halfway house the prison camp was a former Air Force base with a huge swimming pool gymnasium all the weights you needed it turned my life around from being a skinny cocaine addict into very fit healthy bodybuilder. The food was excellent we had steak at least once a week and I had a great job on the floor crew mopping the floors after every meal which didn’t take long but I got to eat all the food I wanted which was very good ate so much protein to grow my muscles. There were some very famous white-collar people also in that prison and one of them was given a tour of the prison by the warden. The whole time I was in there I didn’t see one fight or one drug everybody pretty much got along and the big thing there was boron ball which was the softball league the inmates we all played in. I had a great job in the visiting room but once they found out I had a drug charge they wouldn’t let me work there anymore but my kitchen job worked out to my advantage. The bottom line is that was the real club fed. Even though I had a shorter sentence they gave me a 36 hour furlough about three months before my release where I spent time with my girlfriend up there in the high desert in a beautiful hotel and when I came back they just drug tested me. If you Google Boron FPC you can see what happened to the camp people took it over vandalized it spray-painted all over it and now they ride dirt bikes all over there but it was probably the best 11 months of my life that straightened me out

[@mr.jimenez3499]

I remember Boron FPC my dad was there 1993-1998 I remember we would sign up for the church up the hill while we were visiting him and it was like a small tour of the place I remember seeing the Pool they had. Sadly I was just sentence to 46 months in federal prison and I don’t know where I will be going I have my self surrender in March 😔 which is why I’m watching Justins videos and I’m great full for them cause they have helped me out a lot.

[@sundayweiss2779]

Reese Witherspoon and kiefer Sutherland old school movie Freeway. Scary prison guards in that movie

[@businessaccountallen8994]

With your conviction, are you able to day-trade after your release? Not for others, but just for yourself? Thank you.

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Yes, I can and do. The issue for a white collar defendant, including me, is not the trading, but finding a bank or brokerage firm to take our business. I have had to cultivate and leverage off relationships to find a bank to welcome my business. Great question and even better timing. I just had dinner with a client in town from Michigan. We discussed this exact topic.

[@businessaccountallen8994]

White Collar Advice Thank you for the reply. This person I am thinking of is facing a federal charge of money laundering, but the facts have nothing to do with stocks, bonds, brokerage accounts or anything regulated by the SEC.

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

@@businessaccountallen8994 You're welcome.

[@learnthrivecompassion422]

@@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial Did you have access to the internet or just email?

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

@@learnthrivecompassion422 there is no internet in prison (unless your using an illegal iPhone). Email came to prisons shortly after I was released. Just good old pen and paper!

[@SKYRIDGENIGERIANDWARFS]

I am in Australia and hopefully will never be in jail - unless I make some kind of mistake in the fut But any how I love your you tube videos You are upfront direct and self aware It’s interesting to think about the situations your descrbe

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Thank you and sorry for delayed response!!

[@libertyloveslife5602]

how can i get in touch with you for a youtube interview 😊

[@sammycerrano8356]

12 step program try that

[@steveandrade3595]

What camp were you in

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Taft Federal Prison-now closed

[@carolynntierney5090]

I'm from truckee!!

[@PatriciaRMouser]

hi where do woman do a&o? and where are womans prison near colorado springs co?

[@stephenleskow7959]

From what I hear Obama changed the “great food” on federal prison. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but intriguing that you commented to the contrary.

[@blakebendele7064]

Must be nice to have a spa in prison 🧖‍♀️

[@beachbum1523]

I went to buy some fireworks this past week and after I got home I changed out of my blue jeans so that my wife could wash them. Turns out, I had over $75. that I left in my pants pockets. She washed and dried my pants and when she pulled them out of the dryer, she found the bills. I'm worried sick about the feds charging us with money laundering. Should we go ahead and get an attorney now? Do you have any programs for women who are facing time in federal prisons? I haven't slept in four nights now. Please help us!

[@johnfroelich8554]

Clever!!

[@telasmshinges6850]

Knox😊

[@cmaflyer]

Justin, you need to clarify that these facts were just facts with your experience. I didn’t get the same impressions with my time especially number 12, bland, subpar meats and mostly canned vegetables.

[@FederalPrisonAdvice]

I absolutely agree with you. I made a note earlier in the video that these experiences were mine and others may view it differently or flat out tell me that I am wrong. Certainly, this list is open to interpretation. To the food, I agree food in the chow hall wasn’t great-I was referring to food that was made in the dorms with food purchased in commissary. Good to hear from you and welcome home!!

[@dqz7887]

Do you know if there is any programs for illegal immigrants who are on a federal prison to reduce their sentence as a time credit lake first step act or RDAP Godd time program thank you so much for the information

[@user-fz3wb3qz4j]

i got sentenced to life and used this advice and escaped

[@Shan-ShanH]

What? What do you mean the staff are jealous because they can’t leave? That staff member can quit anytime they damn well please.

[@johnfroelich8554]

The feds let you keep your home. Wow. Lucky you. I lost everything

[@XFader505]

Well didn't you have like 24 count indictment on fraud and drug counts

[@johnfroelich8554]

@@XFader505 no.

[@reneetodd-cy2gn]

Marketing books hustle made money near future just listening

[@johnlouisville]

I want to go to prison soooo badly

[@yourinnerlawyer4035]

...is that you Michael Falk?

[@taviagrimes5154]

This is my first offense I have brandishing a firearm and 2 robberies...think I will go to a camp?

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

I am sorry to read of your offense. As I understand it, no. Gun convictions preclude people from going to camps.

[@alicelong3613]

Why did you do that?

[@JustMe-px9qy]

For the most part… I like you. And I really enjoy your videos. Your attitude toward prison guards is a little off putting and arrogant. Perhaps they are jealous because they have very little education and very few opportunities. Kindness would go a long way.

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

For the most part…I agree with most of your comments. To tolerate everything is to tolerate nothing-that’s why I don’t show kindness to a guard.

[@JFP9036]

Volume is very low. Please adjust for future videos.

[@marcpennington8455]

Could you have bought drugs in there? Or maybe better asked, could someone who wanted dope really bad could have found some?

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Yes

[@jamesflorez5867]

blablablabla he keeps talking and does not tell clearly what are the 12 faCTS!!

[@jaylee1318]

Sorry dude, it would have been better if you didn’t give your presentation in a staged home (please don’t try to say it’s not, there are all the indications from the mirror that is free standing to the bare walls and even the echo in the room). Then you try to cover by making up a weird story about your daughter watching some sort of kid video in your office! This only makes you come across as a con, you seem to have valuable information to share, although your price per hour to personally share your information is rather high ($400 an hour)! I guess I can’t blame you for charging what the market will bear. Although again the fact that you try to present yourself in an setting that is fake does take away from your credibility!

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Thanks for the message. Here is another video from the staged home, or as I prefer to call it, my backyard! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZaWinlqgNVqf7s

[@sidstovell2177]

Doesn't everyone use a phony background? But act like it's their home, or office?

[@jaylee1318]

@@sidstovell2177 ABSOLUTELY, ALTHOUGH WHEN YOU SPEND 3 MINS MAKING UP A STORY THAT YOU ARE IN YOUR LIVING ROOM BECAUSE YOUR DAUGHTER IS IN YOUR OFFICE WATCHING KID MOVIES (AND THEN YOU SHOW A PHOTO OF YOUR “DAUGHTER”), IS A BIT TOO MUCH. AT WHAT POINT DO THE STORES END AND THE TRUTH BEGINS?

[@ironbutterfly6835]

I agree looks staged

[@emmaevans7011]

Ghislane Maxwell is having a much different experience with incarceration.

[@WhiteCollarAdviceOfficial]

Perhaps, but both have chosen to blame others for their problems. In that vein, they are the same…

[@l.alexandra5871]

“I was a big fat slob” - you certainly didn’t learn enough humility - how judgemental