Title 18, Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-102
§4008 Transportation Expenses
Title 18 › PART III — PRISONS AND PRISONERS › CHAPTER 301 — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 4008
Summary
Attorney General or his representative must arrange prisoner transport and pay reasonable travel, living, and guard and agent costs from DOJ funds; after a consular or court‑martial conviction, the State Department or the military must take the prisoner to prison, paid from the Treasury.
Full Legal Text
Title 18, §4008
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Prisoners shall be transported by agents designated by the Attorney General or his authorized representative. The reasonable expense of transportation, necessary subsistence, and hire and transportation of guards and agents shall be paid by the Attorney General from such appropriation for the Department of Justice as he shall direct. Upon conviction by a consular court or court martial the prisoner shall be transported from the court to the place of confinement by agents of the Department of State, the Army, Navy, or Air Force, as the case may be, the expense to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States in the manner provided by law.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
1948 ActBased on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 753g (
May 14, 1930, ch. 274, § 8, 46 Stat. 327). The second paragraph was originally a proviso. Minor changes of phraseology were made. 1949 ActThis section [section 61] corrects the third paragraph of section 4008 of title 18, U.S.C., by redesignating the “War Department” as the “Department of the Army”, to conform to such redesignation by act of
July 26, 1947 (ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501), and by inserting a reference to the Department of the Air Force, in view of the creation of such Department by the same act.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1949—Act May 24, 1949, substituted “the Army, Navy, or Air Force” for “War, or the Navy”.
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Citation
18 U.S.C. § 4008
Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102