Chapter CXXVIII. *to regulate Credits to Prisoners for good Behavior*
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CHAP. CXXVIII.— An Act *to regulate Credits to Prisoners for good Behavior*. June 14, 1870. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Credits for good behavior to prisoners sentenced by courts of the United States.1867, ch. 146. Vol. xiv. p. 424. That prisoners who are now or who may hereafter be confined in prisons of any of the States, as punishment for crimes of which they have been convicted and sentenced by courts of the United States, shall hereafter be entitled to the same system of credits for good behavior as other prisoners confined in the same prison.
And hereafter the act approved March two, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, entitled “An act in relation to persons imprisoned under sentence for offenses against the United States,” shall only apply to such persons as are confined in prisons where no credits for good behavior are allowed. Approved, June 14, 1870.