Volume 47
Public Law 72–310
To fix the date when sentence of imprisonment shall begin to run, providing when the allowance to a prisoner of time for good conduct shall begin to run, and further to extend the provisions of the parole laws.
Approved June 29, 1932
Statutory text
AN ACT
To fix the date when sentence of imprisonment shall begin to run, providing when the allowance to a prisoner of time for good conduct shall begin to run, and further to extend the provisions of the parole laws.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sentence
United States prisoners.
Date sentences of, begin to run.
of imprisonment of any person convicted of a crime in a court of the United States shall commence to run from the date on which such person is received at the penitentiary, reformatory, or jail for service of said sentence: Provided, That if any such person shall be
Proviso.
If committed to await transportation.
committed to a jail or other place of detention to await transportation to the place at which his sentence is to be served, the sentence of such person shall commence to run from the date on which he is received at such jail or other place of detention. No sentence shall
No other method allowed.
prescribe any other method of computing the term.
Sec. 2.
That with respect to Federal prisoners sentenced after this
Deductions for good conduct.
Computation of.
Vol. 32, p. 397; Vol. 36, p. 819.
Act shall become effective, deductions from the term of sentence for good conduct, as provided for by section 1 of the Act of June 21, 1902 (32 Stat. 397; U. S. C., title 18, sec. 710), shall be computed beginning with the day on which the sentence commences to run.
U. S. C., p. 514.
Sec. 3.
That any prisoner hereafter sentenced, who may be paroled
Paroled prisoners.
No deductions for good conduct.
under authority of the parole laws, shall continue on parole until the expiration of the maximum term or terms specified in his sentence without deduction of such allowance for good conduct as is or may hereafter be provided for by law.
Sec. 4.
Any prisoner who shall have served the term or terms for
Released prisoners with deductions for good conduct.
which he shall hereafter be sentenced, less deductions allowed therefrom for good conduct, shall upon release be treated as if released on parole and shall be subject to all provisions of law relating to the parole of United States prisoners until the expiration of the maximum term or terms specified in his sentence: Provided, That this section
Proviso.
Transfer of custody.
shall not operate to prevent delivery of a prisoner to the authorities of any State otherwise entitled to his custody.
Sec. 5.
All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby
Inconsistent laws repealed.
repealed.
Sec. 6.
This Act shall take effect thirty days after its approval.
Effective date.
Approved, June 29, 1932.