In a sentence which includes confinement, the convening authority shall prescribe the place of confinement which may be a federal military confinement facility, the county correctional facility where the accused's unit is headquartered or where the accused resides or to the state commissioner of corrections. The confinement facility shall bear the costs of confinement from general appropriations made for confinement of state prisoners. History: 1978 Comp., § 20-12-8, enacted by Laws 1987, ch. 318, § 93.
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