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[CITE: 18USC4083]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART III--PRISONS AND PRISONERS
 
                  CHAPTER 305--COMMITMENT AND TRANSFER
 
Sec. 4083. Penitentiary imprisonment; consent

    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.
    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.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 850; Pub. L. 86-256, Sept. 14, 1959, 
73 Stat. 518.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Secs. 753f, 762 (Mar. 2, 1895, 
ch. 189, Sec. 1, 28 Stat. 957; June 10, 1896, ch. 400, Sec. 1, 29 Stat. 
380; May 14, 1930, ch. 274, Sec. 7, 46 Stat. 326; June 14, 1941, ch. 
204, 55 Stat. 252; Oct. 21, 1941, ch. 453, 55 Stat. 743).
    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 section 1 of this title 
classifying offenses and notes thereunder.)
    The second paragraph is derived from said section 753f of title 18, 
U.S.C., 1940 ed.
    Minor changes of phraseology were made.


                               Amendments

    1959--Pub. L. 86-256 substituted ``punishable by imprisonment for'' 
for ``and sentenced to terms of imprisonment of'' in first sentence.