{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s4083","title_num":"18","num":"§ 4083.","heading":"Penitentiary imprisonment; consent","status":null,"guid":"idbf56df43-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 850; Pub. L. 86–256, Sept. 14, 1959, 73 Stat. 518.)","seq_in_title":1312,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptIII/ch305","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptIII","level":"part","num":"PART III—","heading":"PRISONS AND PRISONERS","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptIII/ch305","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 305—","heading":"COMMITMENT AND TRANSFER","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id75655def-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s4083\"><num value=\"4083\">§ 4083.</num><heading> Penitentiary imprisonment; consent</heading><content>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">Persons convicted of offenses against the United States or by courts-martial punishable by imprisonment for more than one year may be confined in any United States penitentiary.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">A sentence for an offense punishable by imprisonment for one year or less shall not be served in a penitentiary without the consent of the defendant.</p>\n</content><sourceCredit id=\"id75655df0-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(<ref href=\"/us/act/1948-06-25/ch645\">June 25, 1948, ch. 645</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/62/850\">62 Stat. 850</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/pl/86/256\">Pub. L. 86–256</ref>, <date date=\"1959-09-14\">Sept. 14, 1959</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/73/518\">73 Stat. 518</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id75655df1-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"historicalAndRevision\" id=\"id75655df2-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Historical and Revision Notes</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§ 753f, 762 (<ref href=\"/us/act/1895-03-02/ch189/s1\">Mar. 2, 1895, ch. 189, § 1</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/28/957\">28 Stat. 957</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1896-06-10/ch400/s1\">June 10, 1896, ch. 400, § 1</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/29/380\">29 Stat. 380</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1930-05-14/ch274/s7\">May 14, 1930, ch. 274, § 7</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/46/326\">46 Stat. 326</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1941-06-14/ch204\">June 14, 1941, ch. 204</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/55/252\">55 Stat. 252</ref>; <ref href=\"/us/act/1941-10-21/ch453\">Oct. 21, 1941, ch. 453</ref>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/55/743\">55 Stat. 743</ref>).</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Said section 762 was condensed and simplified and extended to all penitentiaries instead of to Leavenworth only, since the section is merely declaratory of existing law. (See <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s1\">section 1 of this title</ref> classifying offenses and notes thereunder.)</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">The second paragraph is derived from said <ref href=\"/us/usc/t18/s753f\">section 753f of title 18</ref>, U.S.C., 1940 ed.</p>\n<p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">Minor changes of phraseology were made.</p>\n</note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id75655df3-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"amendments\" id=\"id75655df4-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Amendments</heading><p style=\"-uslm-lc:I21\" class=\"indent0\">1959—<ref href=\"/us/pl/86/256\">Pub. L. 86–256</ref> substituted “punishable by imprisonment for” for “and sentenced to terms of imprisonment of” in first sentence.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}