RDAPResidential Drug Abuse Program
BOP's ~9-month, ~500-hour residential substance-abuse treatment program. Completing it can bring early release of up to 12 months for nonviolent offenders under 18 U.S.C. § 3621(e), and it earns FSA credits as an EBRR program. Admission requires a documented substance problem in the year before arrest.
Full explainer: RDAP: how the program works and who gets the year off
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