§4105 Transfer of offenders serving sentence of imprisonment

Summary

When a person serving a prison term in another country is transferred to the custody of the Attorney General, they must stay under the Attorney General’s custody and under the same kinds of rules and for the same length of time as if a U.S. court had sent them to federal custody for the sentence the court gave. The person gets credit for days they spent in custody before the sentence started. Any credits the sending country already gave (like good time or work credits) count. After transfer, the person also earns good-behavior credits based on the time still left to serve and at the rate in section 3624(b) for the full sentence length certified by the foreign authorities. Those credits are combined to set a release date under section 3624(a). If the sending country gave no good-time credit, the calculation uses the sentence certified to be served and the rate in section 3624(b). Credits may be withheld as allowed by section 3624(b). If the person gets a U.S. sentence while serving the foreign sentence, the U.S. sentence is added to the foreign sentence as if the foreign sentence were a U.S. district court sentence.