22 USC § 705 - Imprisonment

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identifier: "/us/usc/t22/s705"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "22 USC § 705 - Imprisonment"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "705"
section_name: "Imprisonment"
chapter_number: 13
chapter_name: "SERVICE COURTS OF FRIENDLY FOREIGN FORCES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 5, 58 Stat. 644.)"
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# § 705. Imprisonment

Persons sentenced to imprisonment by a service court of a friendly foreign force may be confined in disciplinary barracks, guardhouses, or other places of detention of the United States armed forces or in penitentiaries or other institutions employed by the United States for the detention or treatment of prisoners, at the expense of the state on whose behalf the prisoner is detained.

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**Source Credit**: (June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 5, 58 Stat. 644.)