Author Biographies: Federal Prison Guidebook

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Federal Prison Guidebook

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Alan Ellis, past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, is a nationally recognized authority in sentencing, prison matters, and post conviction remedies with offices in Mill Valley, California and Ardmore, Pennsylvania.

He is a co-author with J. Michael Henderson of the Federal Prison Guidebook and James H. Feldman, Jr., of the Federal Sentencing Guidebook and a contributing editor to the American Bar Association Criminal Justice magazine for whom he writes a quarterly column on federal sentencing. Mr. Ellis has been described as “one of this country’s pre-eminent criminal defense lawyers” by Federal Lawyer magazine. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in a published decision has identified him as a “nationally recognized expert in federal criminal sentencing.”

Mr. Ellis is a sought-after lecturer in criminal law education programs and is widely published in the areas of federal sentencing, Bureau of Prisons matters, appeals and other post-conviction remedies, with more than 120 articles and books and 70 lectures, presentations and speaking engagements to his credit. He was awarded a Fulbright grant by the U.S. State Department to conduct lectures at Shanghai Jiaotong University’s School of Law on the criminal protections afforded defendants in

America

this past fall. The firm will soon be opening its first international office in

China

J. Michael Henderson is a federal prison consultant to the Law Offices of Alan Ellis, and has over 23 years of experience working for the Bureau of Prisons. While employed by the BOP, he served as the Regional Designator for the Western Region of the U.S. His duties included oversight of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ classification of newly-sentenced federal offenders in the West.

Mr. Henderson also worked at several prisons ranging from administrative to high security, and at the BOP’s North Central Regional Office in Kansas City. He helped revise and implement BOP policies in the areas of Central Inmate Monitoring and Designations, and provided staff training in those areas. He has received numerous awards for his work, including one from the NAACP and a national Bureau of Prisons award for outstanding contributions to improved case management.