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[CITE: 18USC4081]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART III--PRISONS AND PRISONERS
 
                  CHAPTER 305--COMMITMENT AND TRANSFER
 
Sec. 4081. Classification and treatment of prisoners

    The Federal penal and correctional institutions shall be so planned 
and limited in size as to facilitate the development of an integrated 
system which will assure the proper classification and segregation of 
Federal prisoners according to the nature of the offenses committed, the 
character and mental condition of the prisoners, and such other factors 
as should be considered in providing an individualized system of 
discipline, care, and treatment of the persons committed to such 
institutions.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 850.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 907 (May 27, 1930, ch. 
339, Sec. 7, 46 Stat. 390).
    Language of section is so changed as to make one policy for all 
institutions, thus clarifying the manifest intent of Congress.
    Minor changes were made in phraseology.