Comments on Bureau of Prisons' Proposed Rule on the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program
NCLC submitted comments, co-authored by the Prison Policy Initiative and Stephen Raher, in response to the Bureau of Prisons’ (“BOP”) Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“SNPR”) on the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program (“IFRP”). The IFRP is a nominally voluntary program in federal prisons that is intended to encourage incarcerated people to pay off outstanding government-imposed…