HOUSE BILL No. 5030


     July 11, 2001, Introduced by Rep. Shackleton and referred to the Committee on Criminal Justice.


        A bill to amend 1893 PA 118, entitled

   "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relative to state
   prisons, to state houses of correction, and branches of state
   prisons and reformatories, and the government and discipline
   thereof and to repeal all acts inconsistent therewith,"

   (MCL 800.33 to 800.61) by amending the title and by adding sec-

   tion 37.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

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                                    TITLE

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           An act to  revise and consolidate the laws relative to state

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      prisons, to state houses of correction, and branches of state

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      prisons and reformatories, and the government  MAKE CERTAIN PRO-

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      VISIONS REGARDING THE OPERATION OF STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

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      and THE discipline  thereof and to repeal all acts inconsistent

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      therewith  OF STATE PRISONERS; AND TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN

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      PENALTIES.



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           SEC. 37.  (1) AN OFFENDER SHALL NOT INTENTIONALLY MAKE A

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      FALSE ALLEGATION STATING THAT AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT HAS

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      ENGAGED IN CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, KNOWING THE ALLEGATION IS FALSE.

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      AN OFFENDER WHO VIOLATES THIS SECTION IS GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR,

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      PUNISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 1 YEAR OR A FINE OF

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      NOT MORE THAN $500.00, OR BOTH.

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           (2) AS USED IN THIS SECTION:

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           (A) "ALLEGATION" MEANS A WRITTEN OR VERBAL STATEMENT BY AN

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      OFFENDER TO AN OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT ALLEGING

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      CRIMINAL ACTIVITY BY AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT.

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           (B) "OFFENDER" MEANS A PRISONER OR PAROLEE UNDER THE JURIS-

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      DICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OR A PROBATIONER SUPERVISED BY AN

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      EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT.































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