With First Step Act Credits Available, Inmates are balking at RDAP because of the snitching.
RDAP is the Residential Drug Abuse Prevention Program. It’s a 9 month, intensive, redidential program in which all of the inmates in a particular cohort live in the same dorm, together, to form a therapeutic community.
As with any community, especially a therapeutic one, accountability please a huge role. Part of the accountability piece in the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is something called “The Pull Up”.
The way a pullup works, is that if one inmate member of the RDAP therapeutic community, observes another community member doing something wrong, the inmate that witnessed the infraction is supposed to “pull up” the violator in the open community meeting.
These pull-ups can happen over something as innocuous as stealing an Apple out of the chow hall, or something more serious like a cell phone. However, it’s understood that if a pull up occurs over a cell phone, or some other big infraction, the offender will probably end up in the SHU.
Inmates that find themselves in RDAP have struggled with the “pull up” for years. That’s why when 30-50 inmates start an RDAP cohort, in most cases, less than 10 actually graduate.
Those who finish RDAP and don’t have a disqualifying charge, are eligible to receive a year off their sentence. This used to be the driving force behind taking RDAP. Now though, the First Step Act, gives many of those inmates that otherwise qualify for RDAP, the ability to earn that same year off, without snitching.
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