§ 4125. — Public works; prison camps.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 18USC4125]
TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART III--PRISONS AND PRISONERS
CHAPTER 307--EMPLOYMENT
Sec. 4125. Public works; prison camps
(a) The Attorney General may make available to the heads of the
several departments the services of United States prisoners under terms,
conditions, and rates mutually agreed upon, for constructing or
repairing roads, clearing, maintaining and reforesting public lands,
building levees, and constructing or repairing any other public ways or
works financed wholly or in major part by funds appropriated by
Congress.
(b) The Attorney General may establish, equip, and maintain camps
upon sites selected by him elsewhere than upon Indian reservations, and
designate such camps as places for confinement of persons convicted of
an offense against the laws of the United States.
(c) The expenses of transferring and maintaining prisoners at such
camps and of operating such camps shall be paid from the appropriation
``Support of United States prisoners'', which may, in the discretion of
the Attorney General, be reimbursed for such expenses.
(d) As part of the expense of operating such camps the Attorney
General is authorized to provide for the payment to the inmates or their
dependents such pecuniary earnings as he may deem proper, under such
rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
(e) All other laws of the United States relating to the
imprisonment, transfer, control, discipline, escape, release of, or in
any way affecting prisoners, shall apply to prisoners transferred to
such camps.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 852.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Secs. 744b, 851, 853, 854, 855
(Feb. 26, 1929, ch. 336, Secs. 1, 3, 4, 5, 45 Stat. 1318; May 27, 1930,
ch. 340, Sec. 2, 46 Stat. 391).
Section consolidates section 744b of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed.,
with those portions of sections 851, 853-855 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940
ed., which may not have been superseded by section 744b of said title.
Section 851 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was superseded except for
the proviso which formed the basis for the added words ``elsewhere than
upon Indian reservations''.
Section 855 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was superseded by section
744b of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., except as to the specific mention in
section 855 of said title of expense for maintenance and operation of
camps. Hence a reference to operation was added in subsection (c) of
this section.
Section 854 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was added as a part of
subsection (c).
Section 853 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., was added as subsection
(d) of this section, although its retention may be unnecessary.
The phrase ``the cost of which is borne exclusively by the United
States'' which followed the words ``constructing or repairing roads''
was omitted as inconsistent with the later phrase ``constructing or
repairing any other public ways or works financed wholly or in major
part by funds appropriated from the Treasury of the United States.''
The provision for transfer of prisoners was omitted as duplicitous
of a similar provision in section 4082 of this title.
Other changes of phraseology were made.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 4126 of this title; title 15
sections 657a, 657f.
