Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§705 Imprisonment

Title 22 › Chapter 13— SERVICE COURTS OF FRIENDLY FOREIGN FORCES › § 705

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Lets people sentenced by an allied foreign military court be held in U.S. military or federal prisons, with the foreign government paying the cost.

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Title 22, §705

Foreign Relations and Intercourse — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Persons sentenced to imprisonment by a service court of a friendly foreign force may be confined in disciplinary barracks, guardhouses, or other places of detention of the United States armed forces or in penitentiaries or other institutions employed by the United States for the detention or treatment of prisoners, at the expense of the state on whose behalf the prisoner is detained.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 705

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60