Chapter 336. To establish Federal prison camps
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Chap. 336: To establish Federal prison camps. Chapter 336 45 Stat. 1318 1929-02-26 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 336.— An Act To establish Federal prison camps. February 26, 1929.[[H. R. 11285](/us/bill/70/hr/11285).][[Public, No. 822](/us/pl/70/822).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the Attorney Federal prison camps.Established on selected sites.General is hereby authorized to establish, equip, maintain, and operate prison camps upon sites selected by the Attorney General, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Secretary of the Interior.
Transfer to, of Federal convicts for road or trail building.Upon written order of the Attorney General persons convicted under the laws of the United States may be transferred to such prison camps for employment upon road or trail building, the cost of which *Proviso.*Indian reservations excluded.is borne exclusively by the United States: *Provided,* That this Act shall not authorize any such camp for employment upon any Indian reservation. Good conduct commutation applicable.
Sec. 2. That the Act of Congress approved June 21, 1902, as amended by the Act of April 27, 1906, providing for commutation for good conduct for United States prisoners, shall be applicable, to Vol. 32, p. 397; Vol. 34, p. 149.Additional deduction allowed.prisoners transferred to the camps herein authorized; and in addition thereto each prisoner, without regard to length of sentence, shall be allowed, under the same terms and conditions as provided in the Acts of Congress above referred to, a deduction from his sentence of five days for each month of actual employment in said camp.
Criminal laws applicable. Sec. 3. That all laws of the United States relating to the imprisonment, transfer, control, discipline, escape, release of, or in any way affecting prisoners, except as modified by this Act, shall be applicable to prisoners transferred to the camps herein authorized. Payment of earnings. Sec. 4. That as part of the expense of operating such prison camps the Attorney General is hereby authorized and empowered to provide for the payment to the inmates or dependents upon inmates of prison camps herein authorized such pecuniary earnings as he may deem proper, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.
Expenses payable from appropriation for support of prisoners. Sec. 5. That the expense incident to the establishment, equipment maintenance, and operation of prison camps shall be payable from the appropriation for support of United States prisoners, and such appropriation shall be reimbursed to the extent agreed upon by the Attorney General and the head of the department to which the appropriation for road building or such other public improvement incident to which the prison camp was established was made.
Approved, February 26, 1929.
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