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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1792                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 87 - PRISONS

HEAD

    Sec. 1792. Mutiny and riot prohibited

STATUTE

      Whoever instigates, connives, willfully attempts to cause,
    assists, or conspires to cause any mutiny or riot, at any Federal
    penal, detention, or correctional facility, shall be imprisoned not
    more than ten years or fined under this title, or both.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 786; Pub. L. 98-473, title II,
    Sec. 1109(b), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2148; Pub. L. 99-646, Sec.
    53(a), Nov. 10, 1986, 100 Stat. 3607; Pub. L. 103-322, title
    XXXIII, Sec. 330016(1)(O), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 252 (May 18, 1934, ch.
    303, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 782).
      Escape provisions of this section were incorporated in section
    752 of this title.
      Reference to persons causing, procuring, aiding and assisting was
    omitted. Such persons are principals under section 2 of this title.
      Minor changes were made in translation and phraseology.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1994 - Pub. L. 103-322 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $25,000".
      1986 - Pub. L. 99-646 inserted ", detention," after "penal".
      1984 - Pub. L. 98-473 substituted provisions deleting prohibition
    on bringing dangerous instrumentalities into prison and inserted
    provision setting forth a maximum $25,000 fine.
                     EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1986 AMENDMENT
      Section 53(b) of Pub. L. 99-646 provided that: "The amendment
    made by this section [amending this section] shall take effect 30
    days after the enactment of this Act [Nov. 10, 1986]."