The Program: How a Con Man Survived the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Cult of RDAP

by Matthew Cox

MATTHEW B. COX IS A CON MAN, incarcerated in the Federal Bureau of Prisons for a variety of bank fraud related scams. Despite not having a drug problem, Cox, inexplicably, ends up in the prison’s Residential Drug Abuse Program (known as “RDAP”). A drug program in name only, RDAP, is an invasive behavior modification therapy, specifically, designed to correct the cognitive thinking errors associates with criminal behavior. The Program is a nonfiction dark-comedy which chronicles Cox’s sidesplitting journey. This first-person account is a fascinating glimpse at the Survivor-like atmosphere inside of the government sponsored rehabilitation unit. While navigating the treachery of his backstabbing peers, Cox simultaneously manipulates prison policies and the bumbling staff every step of the way

115 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 8, 2020

Reviews

[Jacob]

I really enjoyed this book it taught me a special type of lesson of even when your in the worst you can turn it back into the best. Because this man went to prison for fraud of like millions of dollars and was really good at making forged documents so he was very intelligent and had out smarted the cops multiple times. It taught me once again when you are at rock bottom all you can do is go up and he was in prison writing books and get lessons from a person with some disabilities but was a really good lawyer for being in prison and knew his way around the justice system and even got his jail time dropped by a lot cause of how they prison fucked up.

[Elizabeth Rainey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

As someone who went through the RDAP program 10 years ago, this book flooded me with memories. Some good and some bad. Great read.