Federal · Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

18 U.S.C. § 4046: Shock incarceration program

Civil

What this law says, in plain English

This statute authorizes the Bureau of Prisons to place consenting inmates sentenced to 12–30 months in a shock incarceration program featuring military-style discipline, physical training, and educational/counseling programs.

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The Bureau of Prisons may place in a shock incarceration program any person who is sentenced to a term of imprisonment of more than 12, but not more than 30, months, if such person consents to that placement. adhere to a highly regimented schedule that provides the strict discipline, physical training, hard labor, drill, and ceremony characteristic of military basic training; and participate in appropriate job training and educational programs (including literacy programs) and drug, alcohol, and other counseling programs. An inmate who in the judgment of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons has successfully completed the required period of shock incarceration shall remain in the custody of the Bureau for such period (not to exceed the remainder of the prison term otherwise required by law to be served by that inmate), and under such conditions, as the Bureau deems appropriate.

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