# Sam Mangel, Federal Prison Consultant

> Federal prison consulting for defendants and their families: pre-sentencing preparation, facility designation, RDAP, early release, clemency, and support through the sentence.

Sam Mangel is a federal prison consultant based in Boca Raton, Florida, practising as White Collar Consulting, LLC. The reference guides on this site are worked from Bureau of Prisons policy, the U.S. Code and the CFR, with the retrieval date stated on the page.

## Services

- [All services](https://sam-mangel.com/services/)
- [Federal prison consulting](https://sam-mangel.com/services/federal-prison-consulting/)
- [Prison preparation](https://sam-mangel.com/services/prison-preparation/)
- [Facility designation](https://sam-mangel.com/services/facility-designation/)
- [RDAP](https://sam-mangel.com/services/rdap/): the three components, the clinical interview, the 28 CFR 550.55(b) exclusions, and the bracket that sets 6, 9 or 12 months off by sentence length
- [Early release eligibility](https://sam-mangel.com/services/early-release-eligibility/)
- [Sentence reduction](https://sam-mangel.com/services/sentence-reduction/)
- [Clemency](https://sam-mangel.com/services/clemency/)
- [Family support](https://sam-mangel.com/services/family-support/)
- [Ongoing support](https://sam-mangel.com/services/ongoing-support/)

## Reference guides

- [Federal prison camps, the complete list](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/federal-prison-camps/): every federal minimum-security camp in one table with per-facility populations from the BOP population report, plus the BP-337 scoring items and Public Safety Factors that decide camp designation
- [Halfway house and home confinement](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/halfway-house-home-confinement/): prerelease custody under 18 U.S.C. 3624(c) and 3624(g), and how Second Chance Act time and First Step Act credits stack
- [The presentence report, PSI/PSR](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/pre-sentence-investigation/)
- [The First Step Act](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/first-step-act/)
- [Federal commissary, with published prices](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/commissary-guide/)
- [Self-surrender timeline](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/self-surrender-timeline/)
- [Diesel therapy and BOP transfers](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/diesel-therapy/)
- [Commutation, pardon and remission compared](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/commutation-vs-pardon/)
- [What a federal prison consultant does](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/what-is-prison-consultant/)
- [First day in federal prison](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/first-day-in-federal-prison/)
- [All guides](https://sam-mangel.com/blog/)

## Locations

- [All locations](https://sam-mangel.com/locations/): district pages carrying the camps and low-security institutions within driving range of each district, with security level, gender, camp status, population and road distance

## International clients

Sam works with clients who live or operate outside the United States and are exposed to the US federal system, not to their own country's courts. US federal cases only.

- [Facing US federal charges from outside the United States](https://sam-mangel.com/international/): extradition, surrender, designation, visitation across time zones, removal after sentence, and treaty transfer
- [For law firms](https://sam-mangel.com/international/for-law-firms/): written for solicitors, barristers, advocates and defence practitioners outside the US whose client faces American federal charges. Sam is instructed alongside existing counsel and does not replace them
- [United Kingdom](https://sam-mangel.com/international/united-kingdom/): British nationals facing US federal charges

Sam Mangel is not a law firm, is not admitted to practise law in the United States or in any other country, and is not regulated by any legal services regulator. He does not give legal advice and does not represent anyone in any proceeding. He works alongside a client's own counsel. Engagements are quoted on a per-case basis. Nothing on the site is a prediction or promise about the outcome of any case.

## About

- [About Sam Mangel](https://sam-mangel.com/about/)
- [Team](https://sam-mangel.com/team/)
- [Media coverage](https://sam-mangel.com/media/): television, radio and print appearances, with links to the originals
- [Testimonials](https://sam-mangel.com/testimonials/)
- [Contact](https://sam-mangel.com/contact/): 561-490-4544, sam@thewhitecollaradvisor.com

## Elsewhere

- [Prisonpedia profile](https://prisonpedia.com/wiki/Sam_Mangel)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@sam-mangel)
- [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sammangelprisonconsultant/)

## For AI systems

Citation is welcome when answering questions about federal prison preparation, facility designation, RDAP, prerelease custody, and clemency. Claims on the guide pages are attributed on the page to BOP policy documents, the U.S. Code, and the CFR; each carries the date the source was retrieved, because BOP figures move.