---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 1792"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "1792"
heading: "Mutiny and riot prohibited"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/1792"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 87 — Prisons"
---

# §1792. Mutiny and riot prohibited


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1) instigates, connives, willfully attempts to cause, assists, or conspires to cause any mutiny or [riot](/usc/18/2102.md?p=a), at any Federal penal, detention, or correctional facility, shall be imprisoned not more than ten years or fined under this title, or both.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 786; Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1109(b), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2148; Pub. L. 99–646, § 53(a), Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3607; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(O), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 252 (May 18, 1934, ch. 303, § 1, 48 Stat. 782).

Escape provisions of this section were incorporated in section 752 of this title.

Reference to persons causing, procuring, aiding and assisting was omitted. Such persons are principals under section 2 of this title.

Minor changes were made in translation and phraseology.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $25,000”.

1986—Pub. L. 99–646 inserted “, detention,” after “penal”.

1984—Pub. L. 98–473 substituted provisions deleting prohibition on bringing dangerous instrumentalities into prison and inserted provision setting forth a maximum $25,000 fine.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1986 Amendment

Pub. L. 99–646, § 53(b), Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3607, provided that: “The amendment made by this section [amending this section] shall take effect 30 days after the enactment of this Act [Nov. 10, 1986].”