Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60

§949u Execution of Confinement

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle A— General Military Law › Part II— PERSONNEL › Chapter 47A— MILITARY COMMISSIONS › Subchapter VI— SENTENCES › § 949u

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

If a military commission sends someone to jail, the Secretary of Defense’s rules decide where they serve the sentence. They can be held in a military prison, or in a U.S. or allied civilian prison, or in a civilian prison the United States is allowed to use. If they are held in a civilian prison that the military does not run, they must follow the same rules and get the same treatment as people jailed by the U.S. courts, or by the courts of the state, the District of Columbia, or the place where that prison is.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §949u

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(a)Under such regulations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe, a sentence of confinement adjudged by a military commission under this chapter may be carried into execution by confinement—

(1)in any place of confinement under the control of any of the armed forces; or

(2)in any penal or correctional institution under the control of the United States or its allies, or which the United States may be allowed to use.

(b)Persons confined under subsection (a)(2) in a penal or correctional institution not under the control of an armed force are subject to the same discipline and treatment as persons confined or committed by the courts of the United States or of the State, District of Columbia, or place in which the institution is situated.

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Prior Provisions

A prior section 949u, added Pub. L. 109–366, § 3(a)(1), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2617, related to execution of a sentence of confinement, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 111–84.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 949u

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60