New York – The Republican-led Senate today will vote on a measure that would prohibit an inmate from “throwing, tossing, expectorating or expelling of saliva or other bodily secretion” onto a prison employee.
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The measure, which also has an Assembly version, is sponsored by Sen. John Bonacic, R-Mount Hope, Orange County, was introduced after an inmate at a Sullivan County jail hurled the contents of a toilet bowl at a corrections employee. Because the contents did not include urine or feces, the inmate could not be charged under existing law.
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We need to pass a law that makes it illegal for legislatures to pass stupid laws.
The person in question could have been charged under a multitude of existing laws, and there is no need for a new one.
If the prisioner gets fined and doesn’t pay it maybe they’ll put him in jail. Duh !
It’s really a very sad commentary that we have succumbed to such narishkeit when there are so many more important issues these jerks who WE elected can be working on. So who’s the jerks ?
The punishment for any inmate who commits such vile acts should be solitary confinement 24/7 for the duration of their time in prison and an extension of their sentence. I know both men and women who work in prisons and they come into contact with the scum of society…the least we can do is protect them as best as possible.
toilet bowl water is not saliva, so this law won’t solve the problem it was raised to solve