---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3604"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3604"
heading: "Transportation of a probationer"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3604"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 229 — Postsentence Administration"
  - "Subchapter A — Probation"
---

# §3604. Transportation of a probationer


A court, after imposing a sentence of probation, may direct a United States marshal to furnish the probationer with—

- (a) transportation to the place to which he is required to proceed as a condition of his probation; and
- (b) money, not to exceed such amount as the [Attorney General](/usc/18/3077.md?p=7) may prescribe, for subsistence expenses while traveling to his destination.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 212(a)(2), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2002.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Nov. 1, 1987, and applicable only to offenses committed after the taking effect of this section, see section 235(a)(1) of Pub. L. 98–473, set out as a note under section 3551 of this title.