18 U.S.C. § 755 — Officer permitting escape
submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 72 words · no verdicts yet
A person who has a federal prisoner in custody and voluntarily lets the prisoner escape may be fined or imprisoned for up to five years. If the person negligently lets the prisoner escape, the maximum imprisonment is one year.
A person who has a prisoner in custody under process issued under United States law by a court, judge, or magistrate judge and voluntarily lets the prisoner escape may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to five years, or both. If the person negligently lets the prisoner escape, the person may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to one year, or both.
Whoever, having in his custody any prisoner by virtue of process issued under the laws of the United States by any court, judge, or magistrate judge, voluntarily suffers such prisoner to escape, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both; or if he negligently suffers such person to escape, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 735; Pub. L. 90–578, title IV, § 402(b)(2), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), (I), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147; Pub. L. 104–132, title VII, § 705(a)(2), Apr. 24, 1996, 110 Stat. 1295.)
- 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 735
- 1968Amended · Pub. L. 90-578 · 82 Stat. 1118
- 1990Amended · Pub. L. 101-650 · 104 Stat. 5117
- 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147
- 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-132 · 110 Stat. 1295
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.
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