---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 4012"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "4012"
heading: "Summary seizure and forfeiture of prison contraband"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/4012"
units:
  - "Part III — Prisons and Prisoners"
  - "Chapter 301 — General Provisions"
---

# §4012. Summary seizure and forfeiture of prison contraband


An [officer or employee](/usc/18/202.md?p=a) of the Bureau of Prisons may, pursuant to rules and regulations of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons, summarily seize any object introduced into a Federal penal or correctional facility or possessed by an inmate of such a facility in violation of a rule, regulation or order promulgated by the Director, and such object shall be forfeited to the [United States](/usc/18/5.md).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1109(d), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2148.)