delivered the opinion of the Court.
A general court-martial composed of a military judge sitting alone convicted appellant, in accordance with his plеas, of wrongfully using cocaine on divers occasions between October 2, 1996, and February 2, 1997, in violation of Article 112a, Uniform Code of Militаry Justice, 10 USC § 912a. He was sentenced to a bad-conduct discharge, confinement for 102 days, and reduction to E-l. The convening authority аpproved the sentence. The Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed in an unpublished opinion.
This Court specified the following issue for review:
WHETHER THE PRETRIAL AGREEMENT PURPORTING TO REQUIRE APPELLANT TO WAIVE HIS RIGHT TO CHALLENGE HIS PRETRIAL TREATMENT IN VIOLATION OF ARTICLE 13 AS A CONDITION TO A PRETRIAL AGREEMENT VIOLATES PUBLIC POLICY. SEE UNITED STATES v. FORESTER,48 MJ 1 (1998); UNITED STATES v. RIVERA46 MJ 52 (1997); SEE ALSO UNITED STATES V. COMBS,47 MJ 330 (1997).
I. FACTS
After a pretrial confinement heаring, appellant was ordered into confinement pending trial. The pretrial confinement reviewing *290 officer gave the following reasons for his decision:
a. It is reasonable to assume that SrA McFadyen will revert to the use of cocaine without 24-hour monitoring.
b. Lesser forms of restraint are inadequate. Capt Prince tеstified that the 313th TRS does not have the manpower to conduct a 24-hour monitoring of SrA McFadyen.
See RCM 305(h)(2)(B), Manual for Courts-Martial, United States (1998 ed.). On February 7, 1997, appellant was confined at the brig at Naval Air Station (NAS), Pensacola. After complaining to his attorney about his treatment, appellant was transferred to the confinement facility at Dyess Air Force Base on April 11, 1997. On May 20, 1997, appellant entered intо a pretrial agreement, which included an agreement by appellant to waive his “right to present a motion for additional pretrial confinement credit for alleged unlawful punishment inflicted on [him] while confined at the Pensacola NAS Brig.” At trial, appellant pleaded guilty pursuant to his pretrial agreement. During sentencing, appellant testified in an unsworn statement, much of which related his allеgations of mistreatment at the Pensacola brig. Trial counsel objected on the grounds that appellant was “getting off on all sоrts of tangents and hearsay and bringing in all sorts of stuff.”
Defense counsel responded that the court needed to consider appellant’s treatment “in its totality to determine whether the treatment he has already received in the last 102 days has had the punishment and deterrent effect of a suitable sentence, in determining what other punishment, if any, is suitable to adjudge in this court-martial.” The military judge agreed and allowed appellant to complete his statement. Appellant’s sentence included 102 days confinement, the amount оf time he had already served.
In this Court, appellant alleges several instances of mistreatment during his confinement in the brig at NAS Pensacola. Among these are that he was stripped of rank, that he was prevented from seeing his attorney, and that telephone communications he had with his attorney were monitored. Appellant asserts that his treatment at NAS Pensacola amounted to pretrial punishment. He now contends that his pretrial agreement waiving his right to present a motion for additional sentence credit was imрroper on the grounds that waiver of the right to be free of pretrial punishment is contrary to public policy.
II. DISCUSSION
Article 13, UCMJ, 10 USC § 813, provides:
No person, while bеing held for trial, may be subjected to punishment or penalty other than arrest or confinement upon the charges pending against him, nor shall the arrest or confinement imposed upon him be any more rigorous than the circumstances required to insure his presence, but he may be subjected to minor punishment during that period for infractions of discipline.
This Court is not called upon by the specified issue tо resolve the question of whether appellant’s treatment at NAS Pensacola amounted to pretrial punishment. Rather, the quеstion before this Court is whether public policy considerations prohibit the waiver of this claim in a pretrial agreement.
RCM 705(d)(1) permits nеgotiation of a pretrial agreement and allows either party to propose “any term or condition not prohibited by lаw or public policy.” RCM 705(e)(1)(B) states:
A term or condition in a pretrial agreement shall not be enforced if it deprives the accused of: the right to counsel; the right to due process; the right to challenge the jurisdiction of the court-martial; the right to complete sentencing proceedings; the complete and effective exercise of post-trial and appellate rights.
RCM 705(e)(1)(B) does not specifically prohibit an accused from waiving his right to make a motion for sentencing credit because of unlawful pretrial punishment.
This Court has held that an accused may offer to waive several significant rights as part of a pretrial agreement.
See United States v. Rivera,
We are concerned that any Article 13 waiver be executed with full knowledge of the implications of the waiver. See
United States v. Combs,
Even if we were to apply this rule retroactively to the case at bar, it would make no difference to the outcome because appellant was not prejudiced by the absence of a formal inquiry. The judge conducted an appropriate inquiry into the voluntariness of the pretrial agreement. Appellant dоes not contest the voluntariness of the waiver. Moreover, during sentencing, the military judge allowed appellant to fully describe the circumstances of his confinement at the brig at NAS Pensacola. In awarding a sentence to confinement, the judge was able, if he wished, to take into account the nature of appellant’s pretrial confinement in determining the amount of confinement appropriate as a punishment for his offenses. Under these circumstances, we see no reason why appellant should be prevented from waiving his Article 13 rights.
III. CONCLUSION
The decision of the United States Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals is affirmed.