Federal post-conviction & reentry support
Truthworks prepares people in federal custody, and the families standing with them, for incident reports, disciplinary hearings, and administrative remedy appeals. We get the records, write the statement, build the packet, and keep the deadlines. You sign and file.
We prepare. You file. An attorney advises.
Who we are
Truthworks Reentry Project is a federal post-conviction and reentry support practice. We do one thing well: we turn a chaotic situation into a clean, complete, signature-ready record, delivered on the clock the rules impose.
Most people facing a disciplinary hearing in federal custody go in alone. Defender offices and legal aid rarely take these matters. Private counsel cannot move on a five-day clock. So the person speaks for themselves at the one hearing that decides the outcome, often without the facility's own records in hand.
We close that gap with records discipline, procedural literacy, and plain-language preparation. Legal conclusions travel only under a named supervising attorney, and every client gets a no-charge referral to independent counsel.
Truthworks does not practice law and does not give legal advice. We obtain records, prepare documents, and get you ready in plain language. You sign and file. When a question needs a legal answer, our position is simple: “We can tell you what the record shows once we have it. The attorney has to be the one to tell you what your options are.” Every engagement includes a no-charge referral to independent counsel, and anything marked for legal review carries the name of a supervising attorney.
What we do
Each one follows the same rule: we prepare the record, the person in custody signs and files, and only a licensed attorney advises on legal options.
Fast, records-driven preparation for an incident report, a UDC/CDC or DHO hearing, a disciplinary appeal, or a grievance. Records request on day one, a written statement with the facility's own records as exhibits, a plain-language hearing guide, and the appeals drafted before the finding comes down.
Obtaining and organizing BOP records, FOIA and Privacy Act requests, and preparing administrative remedy packets (BP-8 through BP-11) for issues other than discipline, such as computation, placement, or program access questions, so the exhaustion record is complete and clean for whatever comes next.
Organizing the record a person needs for the road after custody: document gathering, screening questionnaires for state record-relief and clemency programs, and packet assembly for the reviewing attorney. We prepare the file; the attorney tells the client what is possible.
How it works
The full process, with who does what at each stage, is on the How It Works page.
A family member or sponsor completes intake. We screen for conflicts and for anything that must go to an attorney first, and we compute the deadlines.
Day one, we prepare the records request for the facility's own GPS, pass, schedule, and camera logs, with a receipt table so every request is documented.
We write the statement with lettered exhibits, assemble the hearing packet, and prepare the person for the room in plain language at a grade 6–8 reading level.
The person signs and files. If the finding goes the wrong way, the BP-10 and BP-11 appeals are already drafted, with the received-by deadline in the cover letter.
The clocks
Disciplinary process in federal custody runs on short, hard deadlines. The first hearing is ordinarily held within five work days of the report. The DHO decides largely from paper. The regional appeal must be received within twenty calendar days of the DHO's signature. Miss a clock and the record you never made cannot be argued later.
That is why we start with the records request on day one and why the appeal is drafted before the hearing, not after.
UDC/CDC hearing is ordinarily held after the report is delivered.
BP-10 regional appeal must be received after the DHO signature.
BP-11 central office appeal after the regional response.
Intake takes about ten minutes. We reply during business hours, and the clock starts the moment we have your records.