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Title 16. CRIMES AND OFFENSES · Chapter 10. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION · Article 3. ESCAPE AND OTHER OFFENSES RELATED TO CONFINEMENT

16-10-56. Unlawful acts of violence in a penal institution.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    As used in this Code section, the term ‘‘penal institution’’ means any place of confinement for persons accused of or convicted of violating a law of this state or an ordinance of a municipality or political subdivision of this state.#

  2. (b)

    No person legally confined to a penal institution shall commit an unlawful act of violence or any other act in a violent or tumultuous manner in a penal institution.#

  3. (c)

    Any person who violates this Code section shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than 20 years.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 16-10-56, enacted by Ga. L. 1995, p. 137, § 1.1; Ga. L. 2017, p. 500, § 3-5/SB 160.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 2017, p. 500, § 1-1/SB 160, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: ‘‘This Act shall be known and may be cited as the ‘Back the Badge Act of 2017.’’’

Law reviews

For annual survey on criminal law, see 69 Mercer L. Rev. 73 (2017). For article on the 2017 amendment of this Code section, see 34 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 89 (2017). For note on the 1995 enactment of this Code section, see 12 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 112 (1995).

Other notes

The 2017 amendment, effective July 1, 2017, added subsection (a); redesignated former subsection (a) as present subsection (b); substituted the present provisions of subsection (b) for the former provisions, which read: ‘‘Any person legally confined to any penal institution of this state or of any political subdivision of this state who commits an unlawful act of violence or any other act in a violent or tumultuous manner commits the offense of riot in a penal institution.’’; redesignated former subsection (b) as present subsection (c), and, in subsection (c), substituted ‘‘violates this Code section shall be guilty’’ for ‘‘violates subsection (a) of this Code section is guilty’’, and inserted ‘‘year’’ near the end.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

Text read from t16-ch7-11-(v14a)-2018-pdf.pdf, Volume V14A, 2018 edition, pages 707 to 708; merge action: annotated; file SHA-256 5985d65f23ef.