Category: Rdap
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A Judge Can Request The BOP To Do Lots Of Things – But They Don’t Have To If you’re facing sentencing on federal charges and your lawyer is telling you that he’ll simply ask the judge to recommend RDAP and you’ll get the year off, think again. Lawyers rarely know how it works after sentencing.…
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Timing RDAP With First Step Act In Mind RDAP is the Residential Drug Abuse Prevention Program that’s offered at several federal prisons across the country. If you’re eligible, completion of the RDAP program can give you a sentence reduction of one year. However, if you have a relatively short sentence, a situation can arise when…
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What Can You Do If Your Pre-Sentence Report (PSR) Is Incorrect? As a defendant in federal court facing a federal prison sentence, you have a right to dispute or challenge what probation officers place on your pre-sentence report. A lot of people don’t understand the consequences of what’s written, or recognize it too late. We’ve…
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RDAP, Gun Charges & Enhancements The short answer is no. RDAP is the Residential Drug Abuse Program, which is offered in several federal prisons around the country. It’s nine months long in prison, followed by a second part of the program which continues in halfway house and/or home confinement placement. Completion of the program qualifies…
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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,…
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When you’re standing up at sentencing and the Judge makes a recommendation for RDAP, a specific prison or any other recommendation he or she may make, that’s just it, it’s a recommendation. The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is not bound to any “recommendation” that the judge makes. They often times take it under advisement…