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Feces Flinging Prisoners Receiving Lengthy Sentences

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2004 published in Prison Legal News February, 2004, page 11
Filed under: Criminal Prosecution, Sentencing. Locations: Oklahoma, Texas.
An emerging trend of sentences reveals that courts are imposing lengthy sentences on prisoners who throw bodily fluids on guards. In recent years, State Legislators have created new felony offenses that heavily penalize anyone who flings bodily fluids on guards. The philosophy behind these laws, supposedly, is to protect guards ...

 

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