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Title 38. MILITARY, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, AND VETERANS AFFAIRS · Chapter 2. MILITARY AFFAIRS · Article 5. CODE OF MILITARY JUSTICE · Part 8. SENTENCES

38-2-1058. Execution of confinement; discipline while in civil jails; hard labor; civil confinement according to law.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    A sentence of confinement adjudged by a court-martial, whether or not the sentence includes discharge or dismissal, and whether or not the discharge or dismissal has been executed, shall be carried into execution by confinement in any place authorized by this article. Persons so confined shall be subject to the same discipline and treatment as persons regularly confined or committed to that place of confinement.#

  2. (b)

    The omission of hard labor as a sentence authorized under this article shall not deprive a confinement facility from employing it, if it otherwise is within the authority of that facility to do so.#

  3. (c)

    No place of confinement shall require payment of any fee or charge for so receiving or confining a person except as otherwise provided by law.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 38-2-1058, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 753, § 1/HB 98.

Cross references

Conditions of detention of prison inmates generally, § 42-5-50 et seq.

Other notes

U.S. Code.
For similar provision in Uniform Code of Military Justice, see 10 U.S.C. § 858.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t37-t39-(v28)-2021-pdf.pdf, Volume V28, 2021 edition, pages 486 to 487; merge action: carried; file SHA-256 4eed692485f5.