The person of a convict sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison is under the protection of the law, and any injury to his person, not authorized by law, is punishable in the same manner, as if he were not convicted or sentenced.
Idaho Code § 18-313
Protection of person of convict
I.C., § 18-313, as added by 1972, ch. 336, § 1, p. 844.
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