---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 949u"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "949u"
heading: "Execution of confinement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/949u"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47A — Military Commissions"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sentences"
---

# §949u. Execution of confinement

- (a) **In General.—** Under such regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may prescribe, a sentence of confinement adjudged by a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) commission under this chapter may be carried into execution by confinement—
  - (1) in any place of confinement under the control of any of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4); or
  - (2) in any penal or correctional institution under the control of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) or its allies, or which the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) may be allowed to use.
- (b) **Treatment During Confinement by Other Than the Armed Forces.—** [Persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) confined under [subsection (a)(2)](#a-2) in a penal or correctional institution not under the control of an armed force are subject to the same discipline and treatment as [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) confined or committed by the courts of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) or of the [State](/usc/10/4951.md?p=4), District of Columbia, or place in which the institution is situated.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title XVIII, § 1802, Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2598.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 949u, added Pub. L. 109–366, § 3(a)(1), Oct. 17, 2006, 120 Stat. 2617, related to execution of a sentence of confinement, prior to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 111–84.