                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART III--PRISONS AND PRISONERS
 
                     CHAPTER 301--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 4007. Expenses of prisoners

    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.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 848.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 701 (R.S. Sec. 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.


         Payment of Costs of Incarceration by Federal Prisoners

    Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, Sec. 7301, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 
4463, provided that: ``Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment 
of this section [Nov. 18, 1988], the United States Sentencing Commission 
shall 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. The study shall review measures 
which would allow prisoners unable to pay such costs to work at paid 
employment within the community, during incarceration or after release, 
in order to pay the costs incident to the prisoner's confinement.''
