yourstate.us
Home / United States / 18 U.S.C.
18 U.S.C. § 1072

Concealing escaped prisoner

United States · Title 18 — CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective

Get this as JSONEmbed this
Cite this
Citation
18 U.S.C. § 1072, Concealing escaped prisoner, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/449108
Permanent ID
ys:prov:449108@1
SHA-256
cfb0a7b6abc3261ac4fa12d67bd6b0a89a481dda3816c3eba84a4e34300722ac

The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.

Full text

Whoever willfully harbors or conceals any prisoner after his escape from the custody of the Attorney General or from a Federal penal or correctional institution, shall be imprisoned not more than three years.

Legislative history

We haven't linked the enacting public law for this provision yet. That means it is missing from our records, not that no law enacted it.