Avoid Common Mistakes Made in Federal Prison

If you have been indicted, learn what you need to know.
And do it now, when it can still help you.

White Collar Sentencing Consultants, Inc. specializes in preparing people to face the rigors of prison life. We can provide benefits to our clients as soon as the legal defense team is assembled. One of the first crucial events that receive our attention is the preparation for the PSR/PSI report. Defense counsel know how important this document is to the sentencing recommendation. You may not know how many other ways this document is used that impact the client.
For example, for one client, medical information was proposed to be set forth in a PSR/PSI. This information was proposed to be used because it had a nominal impact at sentencing, if any. However, had the information been included in the final version of the report, the BOP would have applied their regulations and could have recommended placement of the client in a far-away medical facility. We were able to avoid this result early and the client received placement at the federal prison location closest to his young family.
In another recent case, a former lawyer who was represented by a prominent attorney appeared at a sentencing hearing to get a pre-negotiated prison term. He had not hired us. During the hearing his experienced attorney successfully argued for a three month reduction in the agreed length of the sentence. Although this sounds like a wonderful result, a result that would confirm the value of that defense attorney, it was not. Neither the client, who had been a lawyer, nor his criminal defense attorney, realized the mistake. As a result of a three-month reduction in the sentence, the client was no longer eligible for a reduction of 15 months! Yes, due to the rules governing programs available to prisoners, the defendant was no longer eligible for a major reduction in his sentence.
Had we been hired at the right time, this tragic mistake would have been avoided. Still, we were able to arrange for an appropriate job assignment for the defendant. We were also able to arrange for his wife and family to visit him within days of his arrival at prison.
In another case, even though we were consulted late in the process, we were able to obtain placement for a defendant into a program resulting in an 18-month reduction in the length of his incarceration. The 9th Circuit decided a case that had an effect on our client and we were able to take advantage of this development even though our client had been in prison for almost 2 years already. We keep informed of developments that provide benefits to our clients.

Our clients are armed with the information they need to obtain the best results. They can be placed in the appropriate location for the shortest period of time. They can take advantage of programs that are available, programs that may not be known to defense attorneys because they have not been in the system. And once incarcerated, our clients will know how to avoid mistakes. Significant attention is given to preparing our clients emotionally to deal with the adjustments required to assimilate into prison. Mistakes in prison lead to harsh results. By avoiding mistakes, by knowing what to expect, our clients will not have to experience the draconian punishments used by staff, such as solitary confinement, and transfers to other prisons that are either more dangerous or farther from home.
Don’t let this happen to you clients or their family. Call or write us today. We are there to help.

White Collar Sentencing Consultants, Inc.

WhiteCollarSentencingConsultants.com

310-560-8000


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