Post Sentence Services
Once sentenced,
the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) will administratively designate an offender
to a prison facility. Depending upon a myriad of regulatory and statutory
factors, an offender can be sentenced to a Maximum, Medium, Low, Administrative
or Prison Camp. (Click here for a list and
location of Federal Prisons.) Each facility is different and there is nothing prohibiting the
BOP, regardless of a judge’s recommendation, from designating someone to a facility across the
state, the country or from designating, for instance, a non-violent first time
offender to a Penitentiary or High
Security Facility.
More importantly, the successful completion of certain prison programs can and will
substantially reduce the offender's
sentence. NPSC can assist an inmate in gaining acceptance into the programs that can
substantially reduce the amount of time spent in prison. For instance in
the Federal system, the BOP offers a Residential Drug Abuse Treatment Program (RDAP)
which is an intensive 500 hour program. After successful completion of RDAP, an
inmate can receive up to 12 months off their sentence. Not all
federal institutions offer the RDAP program and initial and subsequent
designation and/or transfer is crucial to successful RDAP placement.
Additionally, an
inmate will certainly want to take advantage of
available educational or vocational programs that are not offered at every BOP
facility. Each type of prison and each different prison quite often do not
offer the same level of educational, vocational and recreational programs.
Certain BOP facilities offer UNICOR jobs, which may provide an inmate with valuable
vocational training: and substantially higher subsistence allowance. At NPSC, we
thoroughly evaluate our client's background, goals and objectives and make a
recommendation for the most appropriate facility designation. We then
aggressively advocate that recommendation with the BOP so as to ensure that all
consideration is given to the most appropriate facility based on all of the
relevant circumstances.
We keep up-to-date information on all BOP facilities, programs, security
designations and changes so as to provide you with the most timely and relevant
information. We trust that our Facility Designation Services can substantially
assist you in being designated to the most appropriate facility.
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