O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 38-2-1058 (2019)

Execution of confinement; discipline while in civil jails; hard labor; civil confinement according to law

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)

Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.

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(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.

(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.

(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.

History

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

Annotations

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

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