Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§250 Medical Care and Treatment of Federal Prisoners
Title 42 › CHAPTER 6A — PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER II — GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES › Part C — Hospitals, Medical Examinations, and Medical Care › § 250
Summary
The Service must supervise and deliver medical, psychiatric, and technical care in federal prisons.
Full Legal Text
Title 42, §250
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The Service shall supervise and furnish medical treatment and other necessary medical, psychiatric, and related technical and scientific services, authorized by section 4005 of title 18, in penal and correctional institutions of the United States.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification “Section 4005 of title 18” substituted in text for “the Act of
May 13, 1930, as amended (U.S.C., 1940 edition, title 18, secs. 751, 752)” on authority of act
June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 684, the first section of which enacted Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Secretary of Health and Human Services” substituted for “Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare” pursuant to section 509(b) of Pub. L. 96–88, which is classified to section 3508(b) of Title 20, Education.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Functions of Public Health Service, Surgeon General of Public Health Service, and all other officers and employees of Public Health Service, and functions of all agencies of or in Public Health Service transferred to Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1966, eff. June 25, 1966, 31 F.R. 8855, 80 Stat. 1610, set out as a note under section 202 of this title.
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Citation
42 U.S.C. § 250
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102