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Enforcement of Criminal Debts During Incarceration

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DOJ Justice Manual › Title 9: Criminal › 9-143.000 - Collection Of Criminal Monetary Impositions › Justice Manual § 9-143.320

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United States Attorneys should make every effort to enforce criminal debts that are due during the period of the defendant’s incarceration, including coordination of Inmate Financial Responsibility Program payments with the Bureau of Prisons’ case worker. Incarceration alone is not justification for placing a debt in suspense.

[added May 2018]

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