Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal ProcedureRelease 119-73not60

§4012 Summary Seizure and Forfeiture of Prison Contraband

Title 18 › Part III— PRISONS AND PRISONERS › Chapter 301— GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 4012

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Bureau of Prisons staff may quickly take any item in a federal prison that breaks the director’s rules. Those items become property of the United States.

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Title 18, §4012

Crimes and Criminal Procedure — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

An officer or employee of the Bureau of Prisons may, pursuant to rules and regulations of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, summarily seize any object introduced into a Federal penal or correctional facility or possessed by an inmate of such a facility in violation of a rule, regulation or order promulgated by the Director, and such object shall be forfeited to the United States.

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Citation

18 U.S.C. § 4012

Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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