Title 18, Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-102
§4007 Expenses of Prisoners
Title 18 › PART III — PRISONS AND PRISONERS › CHAPTER 301 — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 4007
Summary
The United States must pay the costs of holding people who are arrested or committed under federal law and the costs of carrying out their court sentences. Those costs come from the U.S. Treasury and are paid in the way the law requires.
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Title 18, §4007
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The expenses attendant upon the confinement of persons arrested or committed under the laws of the United States, as well as upon the execution of any sentence of a court thereof respecting them, shall be paid out of the Treasury of the United States in the manner provided by law.
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Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 701 (R.S. § 5536). Provision authorizing expenses for transportation was omitted as covered by similar provision in section 4008 of this title. Minor changes of phraseology were made.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Payment of Costs of Incarceration by Federal Prisoners Pub. L. 100–690, title VII, § 7301, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4463, provided that not later than 1 year after Nov. 18, 1988, the United States Sentencing Commission would study the feasibility of requiring prisoners incarcerated in Federal correctional institutions to pay some or all of the costs incident to the prisoner’s confinement, including, but not limited to, the costs of food, housing, and shelter.
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18 U.S.C. § 4007
Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102