---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 705"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "705"
heading: "Imprisonment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/705"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Service Courts of Friendly Foreign Forces"
---

# §705. Imprisonment


Persons sentenced to imprisonment by a [service court](/usc/22/701.md?p=b) of a [friendly foreign force](/usc/22/701.md?p=a) may be confined in disciplinary barracks, guardhouses, or other places of detention of the [United States](/usc/22/701.md?p=c) armed forces or in penitentiaries or other institutions employed by the [United States](/usc/22/701.md?p=c) for the detention or treatment of prisoners, at the expense of the state on whose behalf the prisoner is detained.


## Source credit

(June 30, 1944, ch. 326, § 5, 58 Stat. 644.)