§ 4003. — Federal institutions in States without appropriate facilities.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 18USC4003]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART III--PRISONS AND PRISONERS
CHAPTER 301--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 4003. Federal institutions in States without appropriate
facilities
If by reason of the refusal or inability of the authorities having
control of any jail, workhouse, penal, correctional, or other suitable
institution of any State or Territory, or political subdivision thereof,
to enter into a contract for the imprisonment, subsistence, care, or
proper employment of United States prisoners, or if there are no
suitable or sufficient facilities available at reasonable cost, the
Attorney General may select a site either within or convenient to the
State, Territory, or judicial district concerned and cause to be erected
thereon a house of detention, workhouse, jail, prison-industries
project, or camp, or other place of confinement, which shall be used for
the detention of persons held under authority of any Act of Congress,
and of such other persons as in the opinion of the Attorney General are
proper subjects for confinement in such institutions.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 848.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 753c (May 14, 1930, ch.
274, Sec. 4, 46 Stat. 326).
Words ``with or without hard labor'' were omitted as unnecessary in
view of omission of ``hard labor'' as part of the punishment. (See
reviser's note under section 1 of this title.)
The phrase ``held under authority of any Act of Congress,'' was
substituted for the following ``held as material witnesses, persons
awaiting trial, persons sentenced to imprisonment and awaiting transfer
to other institutions, persons held for violation of the immigration
laws or awaiting deportation, and for the confinement of persons
convicted of offenses against the United States and sentenced to
imprisonment''.
Minor changes in arrangement and phraseology were made.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 4009 of this title.
