Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part III · Chapter 305 — Commitment and Transfer
§ 4081. Classification and treatment of prisoners
Statutory text
The Federal penal and correctional institutions shall be so planned and limited in size as to facilitate the development of an integrated system which will assure the proper classification and segregation of Federal prisoners according to the nature of the offenses committed, the character and mental condition of the prisoners, and such other factors as should be considered in providing an individualized system of discipline, care, and treatment of the persons committed to such institutions.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 80–645 · 62 Stat. 683
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 4081
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 850.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 850.)
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Notes
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 907 (May 27, 1930, ch. 339, § 7, 46 Stat. 390).
Language of section is so changed as to make one policy for all institutions, thus clarifying the manifest intent of Congress.
Minor changes were made in phraseology.
Credits
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 850.)