§ 42-56-1. Declaration of policy. (a) The general assembly finds and declares that: (1) The state has a basic obligation to protect the public by providing institutional confinement and care of offenders and evidence-based probation and parole supervision and, where appropriate, treatment in the community; (2) Efforts to rehabilitate and restore criminal offenders as law-abiding […]
§ 42-56-10. Powers of the director. In addition to exercising the powers and performing the duties, which are otherwise given to him or her by law, the director of the department of corrections shall: (1) Designate, establish, maintain, and administer those state correctional facilities that he or she deems necessary, and may discontinue the use […]
§ 42-56-11 — 42-56-13. Repealed.
§ 42-56-14. Buildings and grounds comprising institutions. The buildings comprising the state prison, men’s reformatory, reformatory for women, the county jail in the county of Providence, all of which are located in Cranston, and the grounds surrounding those buildings and any other buildings and grounds, wherever located, that shall be maintained for those purposes, are […]
§ 42-56-14.1. Statutory references to former institutions. Whenever, in any general or special law, reference is, or shall be, made to the state prison, the men’s reformatory, the reformatory for women, the Providence County jail, or the jail or jails in the several counties, that reference shall mean, and be construed to mean, the adult […]
§ 42-56-15. References to jailers and jail keepers. Whenever, in any general or special law, reference is, or shall be, made to the keeper of the Providence County jail, and/or to a jailer of any jail in any of the several counties, that reference shall mean, and be construed to mean, the director of corrections, […]
§ 42-56-16. Deputy warden and employees, women’s division, adult correctional institutions. The director of corrections shall appoint a deputy warden, women’s division, adult correctional institutions, who under the direction of the director, shall have the control and management of the division. The director shall appoint any other assistants and employees who may be deemed necessary […]
§ 42-56-17. Identification and description of inmates. The director of corrections, or his or her designee, shall cause prisoners confined under sentence in the adult correctional institutions to be physically and factually described in accordance with accepted criminal identification standards for the identification of criminals. The director of corrections, or his or her designee, shall […]
§ 42-56-18. Inmate furloughs. (a) The classification board of the department of corrections provided for by § 42-56-30 by a vote of at least three (3) of the five (5) members and upon the approval of the director, or his or her designee, may allow a person committed to the adult correctional institutions to leave […]
§ 42-56-19. Educational and vocational training unit. To most effectively assist the vocational and educational rehabilitation of each person imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions or any juvenile placed in the custody of the department, there shall be within the department of corrections an educational and vocational training unit whose duties it shall be to […]
§ 42-56-2. Establishment of department — Director. There is established within the executive branch of state government a department of corrections. The department shall be headed by a director of corrections, who shall be appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate in accordance with the procedures set forth in § […]
§ 42-56-20. Care and employment of short term prisoners. In the case of any person sentenced to imprisonment in the adult correctional institutions for a term of one year or less, he or she shall be classified and placed in any custodial care and employment that shall be deemed appropriate by the director. History of […]
§ 42-56-20.1. Repealed.
§ 42-56-20.2. Community confinement. (a) Persons subject to this section. Every person who shall have been adjudged guilty of any crime after trial before a judge, a judge and jury, or before a single judge entertaining the person’s plea of nolo contendere or guilty to an offense (“adjudged person”), and every person sentenced to imprisonment […]
§ 42-56-20.3. Community correctional program for women offenders. (a) Program established. In addition to the provisions of § 42-56-20.2, there shall be established within the department of corrections a community correctional program for women offenders. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the department of corrections may contract with private agencies to carry out the provisions […]
§ 42-56-20.4. Repealed.
§ 42-56-20.5. Establishment of a women’s transitional housing facility. (a) There is established within the department of corrections a women’s transitional housing facility that shall operate as a re-entry program for women as part of their prison sentence, available only to women who participate in treatment while incarcerated. The house will be a staff secure […]
§ 42-56-20.6. Restitution mandatory — Prior to community confinement. Any person who owes restitution pursuant to § 12-19-32 shall be ineligible to participate in those programs established pursuant to § 42-56-20.2 or § 42-56-20.3, unless and until that restitution has been paid in full, or satisfactory arrangements are made with the court if that person […]
§ 42-56-21. Labor of prisoners committed for criminal offense, qui tam, penal action, or failure to give recognizance. (a) All persons imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions on account of their conviction of any criminal offense, or on execution issued in any qui tam or penal action, or for not giving the recognizance required of […]
§ 42-56-21.1. Notification upon work release. (a) The classification board shall, immediately prior to the release of any prisoner on work release, notify the victim of the crime committed by the prisoner, or in homicide cases, a member of the immediate family of the victim, if any is identified, and shall further notify the police […]
