18 U.S.C. § 3614
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- (a)Subject to the provisions of subsection (b), if a defendant knowingly fails to pay a delinquent fine or restitution the court may resentence the defendant to any sentence which might originally have been imposed.
- (b)The defendant may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment under subsection (a) only if the court determines that—
- (1)the defendant willfully refused to pay the delinquent fine or had failed to make sufficient bona fide efforts to pay the fine; or
- (2)in light of the nature of the offense and the characteristics of the person, alternatives to imprisonment are not adequate to serve the purposes of punishment and deterrence.
- (c)In no event shall a defendant be incarcerated under this section solely on the basis of inability to make payments because the defendant is indigent.