A judge in central Illinois has sentenced a 25-year-old man to 10 years in prison for spitting on a correctional officer at the Champaign County Jail.
A jury convicted Emmanuel Chapple of aggravated battery to a correctional officer.
The Champaign News-Gazette reports that Chapple earned the hefty sentence Wednesday because it was his third serious felony conviction, making him eligible for a mandatory prison term of between six and 30 years.
Authorities say Chapple was in the Urbana jail on other charges in January when he spat on the officer through the talk hole of the cell door.