---
kind: "section"
citation: "34 U.S.C. § 12111"
title: "34"
title_heading: "Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
number: "12111"
heading: "Support of Federal prisoners in non-Federal institutions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/34/12111"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Comprehensive Acts"
  - "Chapter 121 — Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement"
  - "Subchapter I — Prisons"
  - "Part A — Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth-in-Sentencing Incentive Grants"
---

# §12111. Support of Federal prisoners in non-Federal institutions

- (a) **In general—** The [Attorney General](/usc/34/10307.md?p=1) may make payments to [States](/usc/34/11103.md?p=7) and units of local government for the purposes authorized in [section 4013 of title 18](/usc/18/4013.md).
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** Notwithstanding any other provision of this part other than [section 12108(a)(2) of this title](/usc/34/12108.md?p=a-2), there are authorized to be appropriated from amounts authorized under [section 12108 of this title](/usc/34/12108.md) for each of fiscal years 1996 through 2000 such sums as may be necessary to carry out this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–322, title II, § 20111, as added Pub. L. 104–134, title I, § 101[(a)] [title I, § 114(a)], Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321, 1321–21; renumbered title I, Pub. L. 104–140, § 1(a), May 2, 1996, 110 Stat. 1327.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 13711 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.