Why this site exists
Federal prison families live inside a brutal information asymmetry. The rules that govern their loved one’s time — First Step Act credits, good conduct time, administrative remedies, reduction motions — are public law, printed in statutes and program statements anyone may read. Yet around that public knowledge, an industry of consultants charges hundreds of dollars per hour to explain it, to households already spending thousands a year on commissary, calls, and visits.
Meanwhile the government’s own implementation has been demonstrably error-prone: oversight reports and journalism have documented time-credit miscalculations, staffing shortfalls, and people held past lawful release dates. Errors that families could catch — if anyone taught them how. Get My Days Back exists to do the teaching: deep, cited, plain-English education, free at the foundation, with affordable structure on top for families who want tools and coaching. The knowledge asymmetry is the injustice; publishing is the remedy.
What we are — precisely
We are an educational membership and digital content publisher. Our products are information and structure: the free guides on this site, self-help workbooks and template libraries, tracking tools like the time credits calculator, a bulletin monitoring BOP policy and computation changes, procedural coaching that explains how processes work, document formatting performed at a customer’s direction, and — at the top tier — informational reviews of the records a family gathers and free referrals to licensed attorneys when a fight needs one.
We are equally precise about what we are not. We are not a law firm and no one here acts as your lawyer. We do not give legal advice — we do not tell you which motion fits your facts, draft custom legal arguments for your case, or predict your outcome. We do not represent anyone before any court or agency, and using this site creates no attorney-client relationship. These boundaries appear on every page of this site because they are load-bearing: they are what keeps honest self-help education legal, and what separates us from the operators we exist to replace. The full statement lives in our disclaimer.
How our research works
Every substantive claim on this site is built from primary sources: the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, BOP program statements and policy documents, U.S. Sentencing Commission materials, published federal court decisions, and oversight reporting from the Government Accountability Office, the DOJ Inspector General, and established journalism on BOP implementation. Our sources page lists the core library and links the primary documents so readers can verify us — verification being the entire habit we teach.
Our editorial standards: plain English without dumbing down; statutes and rules cited by name and number so readers can find them; honest uncertainty flagged as uncertainty (where circuits split or policy is contested, we say so); and dated review stamps on every guide. The federal system changes — program statements revise, amendments pass, computation systems update — and a guide’s reviewed date tells you exactly how current it is.
Our corrections policy
In this subject matter, errors cost families real days, so our corrections process is public and fast. If you believe anything on this site is wrong — a statute misread, a deadline misstated, a process changed since our review date — email contact@getmydaysback.com with the page and the issue. We verify against primary sources, correct promptly, and update the page’s review date. Substantive corrections are noted; we do not silently rewrite.
The same channel welcomes the other direction of accountability: if a guide worked, if a process differed from our description in your district or institution, or if you hit a situation our materials do not cover, tell us. Reader reports from inside real cases are how educational material stays true to the system as it actually operates, not just as it is written.
How the business works
The foundation is free and stays free: every guide, every explainer, the calculator, the sources library — no paywall, no email gate, no dark patterns. The business is the membership tiers stacked on top: Navigator for tracking tools and the bulletin, Advocate for the full template and workbook library with procedural coaching, and Warrior for hands-on structured support, document formatting at your direction, and attorney referrals. One-time products — the computation audit workbook, motion self-help workbooks, the transfer request kit — serve families who want a single tool rather than a membership.
Two commitments shape the model. Published prices, always — no quote-after-a-paid-call, because gatekept pricing is the consultant pattern we exist against. And no referral economics — when we connect a Warrior member with an attorney, no fee, split, or benefit flows to us from the lawyer, in either direction, because paid referrals are how conflicted advice gets manufactured. We make money when families find the education worth paying for. That is the whole model.
Who is behind this
Get My Days Back is built by a small independent team — researchers, writers, and people who have lived the federal system from the family side — supported by the published work of the practitioners, journalists, and oversight bodies our sources page credits. We are deliberately not a personality brand: the authority on this site is the citation, not the byline, and every claim is checkable against the primary source it names.
We are based in Florida, we operate as an educational publisher under the boundaries described above, and we serve families nationwide — the federal system being the same system everywhere, which is precisely why deep coverage of one system beats shallow coverage of fifty-one. For anything this page does not answer: contact us. We read everything.
The commitments, in one place
To every reader, member or not: the guides stay free; prices stay published; sources stay cited; corrections stay public; and the education stays honest about its own limits — including telling you plainly, as our lawyer guide does, when your fight needs counsel rather than a workbook.
To every family running the method: the days are recoverable more often than the system admits, the tools are free more often than the industry admits, and the household that keeps the records, watches the clocks, and works the process is the most underestimated legal force in the federal system. Teaching that force is our entire job. Start with the pro se guide, run the free assessment, and get the days back.