Custody of State offenders

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Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE > PART IV—CORRECTION OF YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS > CHAPTER 401—GENERAL PROVISIONS

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The Director of the Bureau of Prisons when proper and adequate facilities and personnel are available may contract with proper officials of a State or territory, for the custody, care, subsistence, education, treatment, and training of persons convicted of criminal offenses in the courts of such State or territory.

(Added May 9, 1952, ch. 253, § 1 , 66 Stat. 68 ; amended Pub. L. 89–267, § 1 , Oct. 19, 1965 , 79 Stat. 990 ; Pub. L. 99–646, § 66 , Nov. 10, 1986 , 100 Stat. 3615 .)

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