t. Sentenced Prisoner: A prisoner whose sentence to confinement has been ordered into
execution by appropriate authority.
u. Status of Prisoner: Applies to the particular stage of the prisoner's judicial
proceedings. Specifically, the terms that define prisoner status are detained, officer, adjudged,
sentenced, and casual.
v. Trial Records Disposition: When the convening authority has taken final action in a
general court-martial case, the entire record will be sent, including the action and the opinion or
opinions of the Staff Judge Advocate General. When the sentence of a special court-martial is
approved by the convening authority and includes a bad conduct discharge, whether or not
suspended, the record must be sent to the appropriate Judge Advocate General to be reviewed by a
Court of Military Review. All other special and summary court-martial records must be reviewed
by a Judge Advocate of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps, or a law specialist or lawyer
of the Coast Guard or Department of Transportation, and must be transmitted and disposed of as the
secretary concerned may prescribe by regulation.
w. Trustee: Refers to prisoners in correctional facilities only considered to require little
custodial supervision and who may be designated as local parolees. Prisoners in this category will
be required to execute Department of Defense (DD) Form 512 (Installation Parolee Agreement).
Parolees will be permitted to work and train within specified limits of the reservation, without
guards or supervisors. Where practicable, provisions will be made to billet them outside the
facility-fenced area.
PART B - US Army Correctional Program
1. Specific authority for the confinement of members of the military service is granted by
Congress. Chapter 47, Section 858, Title 10, US Code, provides for confinement in facilities under
military control of the US Attorney General. In the Army, this provision is also stated as Article
58, UCMJ (Revised 1984). This article provides that--
Any sentence to confinement adjudged by a court-martial or other military tribunal,
whether or not such sentence includes discharge or dismissal, and whether or not such
discharge or dismissal has been executed, may be carried into execution by confinement
in any place of confinement under the control of any of the Armed Forces, or in any penal
or correctional institution under the control of the United States or which the United
States may be allowed to use. Persons so confined in a penal or correctional institution
not under the control of one of the Armed Forces are subject to the same discipline and
treatment as those persons confined or committed under the courts of the United States, or
of the state, territory, District of Columbia, or other place in which the institution is
situated.
2. The Department of the Army has implemented the foregoing by setting forth specific
instructions in Army regulations. For example, Army Regulation (AR) 190-47 (The Army
Corrections System) defines the purpose and objectives of the Army correctional programs, the
policies affecting Army confinement and correctional facilities, and the uniform treatment of
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