Dan Wise
| Dan Wise | |
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| Occupation: | Federal prison consultant |
| Known for: | Founder, Federal Prison Time Consulting, LLC; public brand "RDAP Dan" |
| Charges: | Conspiracy to distribute drugs |
| Sentence: | Reported as 42-43 months (served roughly 12-13 months at Coleman FCI) |
| Facility: | Coleman Federal Correctional Institution, Florida |
| Status: | Released |
Dan Wise (also written Daniel Wise), publicly known as "RDAP Dan," is an American federal prison consultant and founder of Federal Prison Time Consulting, LLC. He pleaded guilty in 2014 to a drug-conspiracy charge tied to a pain-management clinic in Georgia, served time at Coleman Federal Correctional Institution in Florida, and founded his consulting firm after completing the Bureau of Prisons' Residential Drug Abuse Program.[1][2]
Prisonpedia Rating: Caveat Emptor
Prisonpedia weighs each federal prison consultant's independent client reviews, verifiable professional background and credentials, media and public presence, and any documented complaints or disciplinary history. As of our most recent review, Dan Wise holds a Caveat Emptor rating.
No single reliable review-platform number stands in for Wise's overall record. Ratings across Google (4.2/5, 19 reviews), Birdeye (4.4/5, 7 reviews), and Yelp are individually thin and skew positive, but a recurring complaint theme ("took my money and disappeared," "hung up on us," "took the money and ran") appears independently, in different wording, across all three platforms, at a rate of roughly 1 in 7 to 1 in 19 visible reviews. That corroborated-if-minority pattern, alongside an unverified but publicly indexed scam-report allegation and an undisclosed, substantially grown fee structure, is the basis for this tier rather than any single star rating.
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Background
Wise pleaded guilty in 2014 to conspiracy to distribute drugs in connection with managing a pain-management clinic in Savannah, Georgia.[1] Reported sentence length varies across sources, 42 to 43 months, but accounts agree he served roughly 12 to 13 months at Coleman Federal Correctional Institution, a low-security facility in Florida, after completing the Bureau of Prisons' Residential Drug Abuse Program.[1][2] He began a YouTube channel three days before self-surrendering, posting a video that unexpectedly drew engagement from other people facing federal time, the origin of his consulting business.[1] He relocated to Spokane Valley, Washington after his release and founded Federal Prison Time Consulting, LLC in 2015.[3]
Federal Prison Time Consulting
The firm advertises sentence-reduction strategy, pre-sentence-interview preparation, personal-narrative and character-reference-letter assistance, RDAP eligibility guidance, and self-surrender preparation.[4] Press coverage in 2017 reported a flat $1,495 fee; a 2025 interview described current pricing in a $3,500-$10,000 range, though the firm's website does not publish pricing and instead directs prospective clients to a phone consultation.[5]
Wise's YouTube channel, @RDAPDAN1, has run continuously since December 2012 and had drawn more than 17,000 subscribers and roughly 2.66 million lifetime views as of mid-2026, the largest independent reach signal for this consultant, and the source of recurring, organic recommendations from unrelated users across federal-prison-focused online communities over a period spanning 2018 to 2026.[5]
Note on branding: Federal Prison Time Consulting, LLC and Dan Wise are not connected to "RDAP Law Consultants, LLC," a separate Michigan firm whose principals were federally convicted in 2019 for coaching clients to fraudulently fake substance-abuse histories to gain RDAP entry; Wise is quoted in coverage of that case as an outside industry voice, not as a subject of the investigation.[6]
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who is Dan Wise / RDAP Dan?
Dan Wise, known publicly as "RDAP Dan," is a federal prison consultant and founder of Federal Prison Time Consulting, LLC. He served time at Coleman Federal Correctional Institution after a 2014 drug-conspiracy guilty plea and built a consulting and YouTube-education practice after his release.
Q: What did Dan Wise do before consulting?
He pleaded guilty in 2014 to conspiracy to distribute drugs tied to a pain-management clinic in Savannah, Georgia, and served roughly 12 to 13 months at Coleman FCI in Florida.
Q: What complaints have been made about RDAP Dan?
A recurring minority complaint theme (clients alleging he took payment and stopped responding) appears independently across Google, Birdeye, and Yelp reviews, alongside an unverified scam-report allegation. Most reviews across all three platforms are positive.
Q: Is Dan Wise connected to RDAP Law Consultants?
No. RDAP Law Consultants, LLC is a separate Michigan firm whose principals were federally convicted in 2019 for coaching fraudulent RDAP applications. Wise and his firm are not parties to that case.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Spokane Valley man uses experience to coach incoming prisoners," The Spokesman-Review, March 28, 2017, https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/mar/28/spokane-valley-man-uses-experience-to-coach-incomi/.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Ex-con parlays experience into prison consulting business," Corrections1, https://www.corrections1.com/corrections/articles/ex-con-parlays-experience-into-prison-consulting-business-hy93WTc5JxEjbDiN/.
- ↑ Federal Prison Time Consulting, "Team," https://www.federalprisontime.com/team.
- ↑ Federal Prison Time Consulting, https://www.federalprisontime.com/.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Dan is a pre-prison consultant," What Was That Like, June 20, 2025, https://whatwasthatlike.com/2025/06/20/dan-is-a-pre-prison-consultant/.
- ↑ Prison Legal News, coverage of RDAP Law Consultants prosecution, July 2019.