Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73
§4112 Loss of rights, disqualification
Title 18 › Part PART III— - PRISONS AND PRISONERS › Chapter CHAPTER 306— - TRANSFER TO OR FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES › § 4112
Summary
If a person is sent to the United States to serve a sentence from another country, they will not lose their legal, political, or community rights or be otherwise disqualified just because they were convicted abroad. The only time rights can be lost or someone can be disqualified is when U.S. law or the law of the state involved says those losses follow from that foreign conviction.
Full Legal Text
Title 18, §4112
Crimes and Criminal Procedure — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
An offender transferred to the United States to serve a sentence imposed by a foreign court shall not incur any loss of civil, political, or civic rights nor incur any disqualification other than those which under the laws of the United States or of the State in which the issue arises would result from the fact of the conviction in the foreign country.
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18 U.S.C. § 4112
Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73