---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 U.S.C. § 2250"
title: "28"
title_heading: "Judiciary and Judicial Procedure"
number: "2250"
heading: "Indigent petitioner entitled to documents without cost"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/28/2250"
units:
  - "Part VI — Particular Proceedings"
  - "Chapter 153 — Habeas Corpus"
---

# §2250. Indigent petitioner entitled to documents without cost


If on any application for a writ of habeas corpus an order has been made permitting the [petitioner](/usc/28/2341.md?p=2) to prosecute the application in forma pauperis, the [clerk](/usc/28/2341.md?p=1) of any [court](/usc/28/3002.md?p=2) of the [United States](/usc/28/3002.md?p=15) shall furnish to the [petitioner](/usc/28/2341.md?p=2) without cost certified copies of such documents or parts of the record on file in his office as may be required by order of the judge before whom the application is pending.


## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 646, 62 Stat. 966.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Derived from H.R. 4232, Seventy-ninth Congress, first session. It conforms to the prevailing practice.