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10 USC § 887b - Art. 87b. Offenses against correctional custody and restriction 

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identifier: "/us/usc/t10/s887b"
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title: "10 USC § 887b - Art. 87b. Offenses against correctional custody and restriction"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "887b"
section_name: "Art. 87b. Offenses against correctional custody and restriction"
chapter_number: 47
chapter_name: "UNIFORM CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE"
subchapter_number: "X"
subchapter_name: "PUNITIVE ARTICLES"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "PERSONNEL"
positive_law: true
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5407, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2941.)"
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# § 887b. Art. 87b. Offenses against correctional custody and restriction

**(a)** **Escape From Correctional Custody.—** Any person subject to this chapter—

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

**(1)** who is placed in correctional custody by a person authorized to do so;

**(2)** who, while in correctional custody, is under physical restraint; and

**(3)** who escapes from the physical restraint before being released from the physical restraint by proper authority;

**(b)** **Breach of Correctional Custody.—** Any person subject to this chapter—

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

**(1)** who is placed in correctional custody by a person authorized to do so;

**(2)** who, while in correctional custody, is under restraint other than physical restraint; and

**(3)** who goes beyond the limits of the restraint before being released from the correctional custody or relieved of the restraint by proper authority;

**(c)** **Breach of Restriction.—** Any person subject to this chapter—

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

**(1)** who is ordered to be restricted to certain limits by a person authorized to do so; and

**(2)** who, with knowledge of the limits of the restriction, goes beyond those limits before being released by proper authority;

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5407, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2941.)

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### Effective Date

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