A man who would have been out of prison this summer will instead serve nearly three-and-a-half more years behind bars for spraying feces and urine on employees of the private prison in Youngstown.

On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced James W. Smith to 41 months in prison following his conviction on 11 counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding an officer or employee.

According to an affidavit, Smith was being held at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center last April when he sprayed a mixture of feces and urine on a corrections officer who was passing by his cell door.

Investigators say that the following month, Smith threw an unknown liquid substance on the face, chest, and arm on a nurse who was conducting daily rounds.

Both prison employees were sent to the prison's medical unit for evaluation.

Smith, who was serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence for a federal firearm violation in 2015, had been scheduled for release this year.

Judge Donald Nugent recommended that Smith serve his sentence at the United States Penitentiary Atlanta, or the Federal Correctional Institution Memphis.

When he completes his sentence, Smith will be on probation for another three years.