"Courts can solve this problem," she said. Other advocates, like Ellen Degnan, a staff attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center, argue the courts should fix the problem themselves by setting individual payment plans during sentencing. "It's really like a sledgehammer when you could bring a tool that was much smaller to address the problem," she said. Kelly avoid restitution, but she also thinks the proposed rule is too broad. Shanna Rifkin, deputy general counsel for Families Against Mandatory Minimums, agrees that the Bureau of Prisons should not let wealthy people like R. Grassley of Iowa said that "inmates, such as the Boston bomber and Larry Nassar, have thousands of dollars to spend on cigarettes and candy that's stashed at the Bureau of Prisons."īut lawyers and advocates for people in prison feel that the proposed rule goes too far. In a hearing on Capitol Hill last September, U.S. Members of Congress from both parties were outraged to learn inmates were avoiding paying restitution. Kelly, keeping large sums of money in their prison accounts rather than paying restitution to their victims. The Bureau of Prisons is considering the rule change after a Washington Post investigation raised concerns about high-profile people, like sex offender and former rap artist R. The new rule would require that 75 percent of all the money family and friends send a person in prison go to pay their outstanding debts. "The bottom line is, I don't feel that it's her responsibility to pay my restitution." "My mother is all that I have, and she can only do so much," he said. But "it's more like now I'm paying his restitution and not him." "I still love him, and understand addiction," Hoolan said. Opponents of the plan say it shifts responsibility Instead, the majority of the money sent to prisoners' commissary accounts would first go to pay their restitution debts and outstanding court fines. Under a new rule proposed by the Bureau of Prisons, however, most of the money Hoolan sends to her son would not go to him. Hoolan said it's hard having a son in prison, but she wants to stay connected and help him out. He's been incarcerated for the last 6 years, so he uses that money for things like over-the-counter medications, shoes for his job or minutes on the phone. Every month, Renee Hoolan sends her son, Bailey Sanders, $75.
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