Title 18 USC Section 4125
January 16, 1996
Public works; prison camps
(a) The Attorney General may make available
to the heads of the several departments the
services of United States prisoners under terms,
conditions, and rates mutually agreed upon,
for constructing or repairing roads, clearing,
maintaining and reforesting public lands,
building levees, and constructing or repairing
any other public ways or works financed wholly
or in major part by funds appropriated by Congress.
(b) The Attorney General may establish, equip,
and maintain camps upon sites selected by him elsewhere
than upon Indian reservations, and designate such camps
as places for confinement of persons convicted of an
offense against the laws of the United States.
(c) The expenses of transferring and maintaining prisoners
at such camps and of operating such camps shall be paid
from the appropriation "Support of United States prisoners"
which may, in the discretion of the Attorney General,
be reimbursed for such expenses.
(d) As part of the expense of operating such camps the
Attorney General is authorized to provide for the payment
to the inmates or their dependents such pecuniary earnings
as he may deem proper, under such rules and regulations
as he may prescribe.
(e) All other laws of the United States relating to the
imprisonment,transfer, control, discipline, escape,
release of, or in any way affecting prisoners, shall apply
to prisoners transferred to such camps.
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