U.S. District Court: DISPOSITION OF FUNDS.

• Position: Brief Article

Phillips v. Booker. 76 F.Supp.2d 1183 (D.Kan. 1999). A prisoner filed a habeas corpus petition challenging the execution of his sentence because the Bureau of Prisons had delegated payments of court-ordered restitution through the Inmate Financial Responsibility Program (IFRP). The court denied the petition, finding that even though restitution was ordered to be paid immediately by the court it did not become void because it could not be paid in full immediately. The court found that the federal prisoner did not possess a liberty...