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 326 SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. SEss. II. Cg. 274. 1930. and custody of said persons shall take into consideration the char- acter of the quarters furnished, sanitary conditions, and quality of subsistence. The rates to be paid may be such as will permit and encourage the proper authorities to provide reasonably decent, sanitary, and healthful quarters and subsistence for persons held as United States prisoners. Establishment of SEC. 4 . If by reason of the refusal or inability of the authorities F ederal fails in ab- having control of any jail, workhouse, penal, correctional, or other sence of State provi- s ion . Post, p. 882. suitable institution of any State or Territory, or political subdivi- sion thereof, to enter into a contract for the imprisonment, subsis- tence, care, or proper employment of United States prisoners, or if there are no suitable or sufficient facilities available at reasonable cost, the Attorney General is authorized to select a site either within Erectionofbuildings, or convenient to the State, Territory, or judicial district concerned etc. and cause to be erected thereon a house of detention, workhouse, jail, prison-industries project, or camp or other place of confinement, which shall be used for the detention of persons held as material witnesses, persons awaiting trial, persons sentenced to imprisonment and awaiting transfer to other institutions, and for the confinement of persons convicted of offenses against the United States and Detention of viola- tors of immigration sentenced to imprisonment, with or without hard labor ; for the laws, etc. detention of persons held for violation of the immigration laws or awaiting deportation, and of such other persons as in the opinion of the Attorney General are proper subjects for confinement in the institutions herein authorized. Sum authorized for s ites, buildi ngs, e tc. SEC. 5. To carry out the purposes of the foregoing section the Post, p . 1575 . Attorney General m ay authori ze the us e of a sum not to ex ceed $100,000 in each instance, payable from any unexpended balance of the appropriation "Support of United States prisoners" for the purpose of leasing or acquiring a site, preparation of plans, and liminary Securing surveyopt ions, etc ., erection of necessary buildings. If in any instan ce it sha ll be if unable to secure site, impossible or impracticable to secure a proper site and erect the etc. necessary buildings within the above limitation of $100,000, the Attorney General m ay authori ze the us e of a sum not to ex ceed $10,000 in each instance, payable from any unexpended balance of the appropriation " Support of United States prisoners " for the purpose o f securin g options and makin g prelimin ary survey s or snEstim tate o c ogab: sketches. Upon selection of an appropriate site the Attorney Gen- eral shall submit to Congress an estimate of the cost of purchasing same and of remodeling, constructing, and equipping the necessary buildings thereon. SEC. 6 . The control and management of any institutions estab- lished hereunder, and the house of detention for Federal prisoners in New York City appropriated for in the Second Deficiency Act, fiscal year 1929, shall be vested in the Attorney General, who shall have power to promulgate rules for the government thereof, and to appoint in accordance with the civil service laws and regulations all necessary officers and employees. In connection with such main- tenance and operation the Attorney General is authorized to establish and conduct industries, farms, and other activities ; to classify the inmates ; and to provide for their proper treatment, care, rehabilita- tion, and reformation. SEC. 7. Hereaf ter a ll per sons convi cted o f an offen se aga inst the United States shall be committed, for such terms of imprisonment and to such types of institutions as the court may direct, to the custody of the Attorney General of the United States or his author- ized representative, who shall designate the places of confinement where the sentences of all such persons shall be served. The Attor- ney General may designate any available, suitable, and appropriate i nstitutio ns, whethe r maintai ned by the Federal G overnment or Control, etc ., vest- ed in Attorney Gener- al, house of detention, ]n New York City in- clude d. Vol. 45, p. 1647. Industries to be es- tablished, etc. Places for confining convicts to be desig- nated by courts.

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