PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

The Secretary in charge may set up a parole system for people held in military prisons who, when they committed their crimes, were under that Secretary’s authority. If someone serving a life sentence is denied parole, only the President or that Secretary can grant parole on appeal, and they cannot let anyone else make that decision.

Title 10, §952

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Secretary concerned may provide a system of parole for offenders who are confined in military correctional facilities and who were at the time of commission of their offenses subject to the authority of that Secretary.

(b)In a case in which parole for an offender serving a sentence of confinement for life is denied, only the President or the Secretary concerned may grant the offender parole on appeal of that denial. The authority to grant parole on appeal in such a case may not be delegated.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1997—Pub. L. 105–85 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1997 Amendment Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title V, § 582(b), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1760, provided that: “Subsection (b) of section 952 of title 10, United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall apply only with respect to any decision to deny parole made after the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 18, 1997].”

§952 Parole