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Public Law 87–317
To amend section 4126 of title 18, United States Code, with respect to compensation to prison inmates for injuries incurred in the course of employment.
Approved September 26, 1961
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 4126 of title 18, United States Code, with respect to compensation to prison inmates for injuries incurred in the course of employment.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first sentence
Federal prison inmates.
Compensation for injuries.
of the third paragraph of section 4126 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the words “or in any work activity in connection with the maintenance or operation of the institution where confined.”
Approved September 26, 1961.