---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1132"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1132"
heading: "Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted of serious violent felonies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1132"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 57 — Decorations and Awards"
---

# §1132. Presentation of decorations: prohibition on entering correctional facilities for presentation to prisoners convicted of serious violent felonies

- (a) **Prohibition.—** A member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) may not enter a Federal, [State](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4), local, or foreign correctional [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) to present a decoration to a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who is incarcerated due to conviction of a serious violent felony.
- (b) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “decoration” means any decoration or award that may be presented or awarded to a member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).
  - (2) The term “serious violent felony” has the meaning given that term in [section 3559(c)(2)(F) of title 18](/usc/18/3559.md?p=c-2-F).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 537(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2019.)