| Calculating a Federal prison sentence is not at all that | | | | time credit. |
| difficult. To determine the amount of possible good | | | | Drugs are even worse in federal prison. Often drugs |
| time credit you could earn, a prison sentence | | | | do make their way in - its best to take advantage of |
| calculator can be used. The Federal Bureau of Prisons | | | | an Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) if one is |
| (FBOP) has a simple percentage point with which to | | | | available to you. There are many different programs |
| calculate a federal inmates time. One way of earning | | | | afforded to inmates to help them get clean before |
| good time credit is simply by minding your own | | | | they get out. Its best to take advantage of any |
| business and doing as the officers say. Not doing so | | | | program that can keep you out of your cell a little |
| often find inmates losing precious time. | | | | longer with like minded people just trying to make |
| For the most part, as a federal prison inmate, you | | | | their lives better. |
| would need to simply do as instructed and simply | | | | Gambling will simply cause you to have to pay with |
| focus on the fact that you could earn good time | | | | money or items you may not have readily available. |
| credit towards a reduction in your prison sentence. | | | | Keep in mind - no one wins every hand at poker. You |
| It's all about getting out of prison and back to your | | | | could be owing someone you don't want to owe. |
| family or back to the life you had before prison. | | | | This can get you into serious trouble if you trade a |
| While in prison, you don't want to get involved with | | | | debt for an action. An action could be that the |
| the following: | | | | person you owe money to will ask you to start a |
| - Gangs | | | | fight or something worse. This also falls into the |
| - Drugs | | | | fights category. |
| - Gambling | | | | Vandalism is quite rampant in some federal prisons. |
| - Fights | | | | With inmates confined up to 23 hours per day some |
| - Vandalism Getting involved with gangs in federal | | | | do have a tendency to rip up their sheets, smash |
| prison can cost you some major time. You may be | | | | appliances and attempt to manipulate the electrical |
| asked to do some things you wouldn't normally do | | | | systems or plumbing. Its best to put this aside and |
| causing you to be written up and losing your good | | | | consider it a ridiculous thing to be written up for. |