Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 217.400 - Furnishing unfit food to offenders, penalty1. A person commits the offense of furnishing unfit food to offenders if he does any of the following: (1) Knowingly furnishes or delivers any diseased, putrid or otherwise unwholesome meat from any animal or fowl that was diseased or otherwise unfit for food to any correctional center operated or funded by the department;(2) Knowingly furnishes or delivers any other unwholesome food, vegetables or provisions whatsoever to such correctional centers to be used as food by the offenders in such correctional centers;(3) Knowingly receives or consents to receive as an employee of such correctional center any diseased or unwholesome meat, food or provisions.2. Furnishing unfit food to offenders is a class E felony.Amended by 2014 Mo. Laws, SB 491,s A, eff. 1/1/2017.L. 1982 H.B. 1196 § 25, A.L. 1989 H.B. 408, A.L. 1995 H.B. 424