CFR > Title 28 - Judicial Administration > CHAPTER V—BUREAU OF PRISONS, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE > SUBCHAPTER B—INMATE ADMISSION, CLASSIFICATION, AND TRANSFER (parts 522 to 527) > PART 522—ADMISSION TO INSTITUTION > SUBPART B—Civil Contempt of Court Commitments (§522.10 to §522.15) > 522.12—Relationship between existing criminal sentences imposed under the U.S. or D.C. Code and new civil contempt commitment orders.

522.12—Relationship between existing criminal sentences imposed under the U.S. or D.C. Code and new civil contempt commitment orders.

If a criminal sentence imposed under the U.S. Code or D.C. Code exists when a civil contempt commitment is ordered, we delay or suspend credit towards service of the criminal sentence for the duration of the civil contempt commitment, unless the committing judge orders otherwise.