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PART I. ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT

TITLE XVIII. PRISONS, IMPRISONMENT, PAROLES AND PARDONS

CHAPTER 127. OFFICERS AND INMATES OF PENAL AND REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS. PAROLES AND PARDONS

PRISONERS

Chapter 127: Section 38A. Holding officers and employees as hostages

Section 38A. Any prisoner in any penal or reformatory institution who holds any officer or employee of such institution or any other person as a hostage shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.