18-U.S.C.-436
§436 – Convict Labor Contracts
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Title 18 > Part I > Chapter 23 > Section 436
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- Reference: Section 436
- Legend: §436 – Convict Labor Contracts
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
Whoever, being an officer, employee, or agent of the United States or any department or agency thereof, contracts with any person or corporation, or permits any warden, agent, or official of any penal or correctional institution, to hire out the labor of any prisoners confined for violation of any laws of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 703; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(K), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Historical and Revision Notes
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §§708, 709 (Feb. 23, 1887, ch. 213, §§1, 2, 24 Stat. 411).
This section consolidates sections 708 and 709 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., as the offense and penalty provisions, respectively.
Words department or agency thereof were inserted to clarify scope of section. See definition of department and agency in section 6 of this title.
To retain uniformity words shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, were omitted. The reference to misdemeanor is now covered by the definition in section 1 of this title.
Words on conviction thereof were omitted as unnecessary since punishment can follow only upon conviction.
The minimum punishment provisions less than one year nor and less than $500 nor were deleted to conform to the policy followed by codifiers of 1909 Criminal Code. (See revisers note under section 203 of this title.)
Changes were also made in phraseology.
Amendments
1994—Pub. L. 103–322, which directed the amendment of this section by substituting fined under this title for fined not more than $5,000, was executed by making the substitution for fined not more than $1,000, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
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