§ 42-56-21.2. Restitution mandatory — Prior to work release. Any person who owes restitution pursuant to § 12-19-32 shall be ineligible to participate in that program established pursuant to § 42-56-21, unless and until that restitution has been paid in full, or satisfactory arrangements are made with the court if that person has the ability […]
§ 42-56-22. Labor by persons committed on mesne process or to answer criminal charge. (a) Every person who shall be committed to the adult correctional institutions to answer for any criminal offense, whether convicted or awaiting trial, or on mesne process in any qui tam or penal action, or on mesne process or execution in […]
§ 42-56-23. Body of deceased inmate. Whenever any person shall die in any of the correctional institutions, the director, or his or her designee, shall, after an inquest has been held on the body of the deceased person, deliver the body to his or her relatives or friends if they request it; and if no […]
§ 42-56-24. Earned time for good behavior or program participation or completion. (a) A person serving a sentence of a violation of § 11-5-1 (where the specified felony is murder), § 11-23-1, § 11-26-1.4, § 11-37-2, § 11-37-8.1, or § 11-37-8.3 shall not be eligible to earn time off their term or terms of incarceration […]
§ 42-56-25. Repealed.
§ 42-56-26. Additional time allowed for meritorious service. Prisoners sentenced to imprisonment for violations of offenses identified in § 42-56-24(a) and (b) shall be eligible to have deducted from his or her sentence up to three (3) days per month up to a maximum of thirty-six (36) days per year, when in the determination of […]
§ 42-56-27. Clothing and payment of discharged prisoners. Whenever a prisoner shall be discharged he or she shall be decently clothed, and the director, or his or her designee, shall pay to him or her all moneys credited to his or her account at the time of his or her discharge; provided, however, that in […]
§ 42-56-28. Prisoners previously sentenced. All persons imprisoned in the state prison, the men’s reformatory, the Providence County jail, and the jails in the several counties, on October 1, 1956 shall be deemed to be imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions in accordance with this chapter and all sentences imposed upon those persons prior to […]
§ 42-56-29. Receiving and orientation unit — Study of incoming prisoners. To establish security standards which will safeguard society and which will provide for the most efficient possible rehabilitation of individual prisoners, there shall be established within the department of corrections a receiving and orientation unit which shall receive all persons sentenced to the adult […]
§ 42-56-3. Transfer of functions from the department of human services. There are transferred to the director of the department of corrections: (1) All of the functions of the division of correctional services formerly of the department of human services, including the administration of interstate compacts and all other officers, employees, agencies, advisory councils, committees, […]
§ 42-56-30. Classification board. For the purpose of the study and in order to regulate a system of classification of persons committed to the custody of the department, there shall be within the department a classification board consisting of five (5) persons to be appointed by the director of the department of corrections to serve […]
§ 42-56-31. Determination of classification and rehabilitation programs of prisoners. It shall be the duty of the classification board to review all studies made of each prisoner during the period of his or her reception and from time to time thereafter as shall be necessary to further the purposes of this chapter; and to recommend […]
§ 42-56-32. Classification unit. Within the department of corrections there shall be a classification unit under the supervision of the director, or his or her designee, which shall collect and record all of the data concerning each person sentenced to the adult correctional institutions. This unit shall periodically review the file of each person and […]
§ 42-56-33. Training school for youth. The department of corrections shall maintain a school to be known as the training school for youth for the detention of children by order of the family court and for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of children found delinquent or wayward by the family court. History of Section.P.L. 1976, […]
§ 42-56-34. Designation of land and buildings for training school for youth. The buildings comprising the Rhode Island training school for boys and the Rhode Island training school for girls, all of which are located in Cranston, and the grounds surrounding those buildings and any other buildings and grounds, wherever located, as shall hereafter be […]
§ 42-56-35. Repealed.
§ 42-56-36. Transfer of powers and functions from department of corrections. (a) There are hereby transferred to the department of administration: (1) Those functions of the department of corrections which were administered through or with respect to departmental programs in the performance of strategic planning as defined in § 42-11-10(c); (2) All officers, employees, agencies, […]
§ 42-56-37. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing. (a) Every person who is committed to the adult correctional institutions to answer for any criminal offense, after conviction, is required to be tested for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). No consent for this test is required from the person being tested, nor is this test subject to waiver. […]
§ 42-56-38. Assessment of costs. (a) Each sentenced offender committed to the care, custody, or control of the department of corrections shall reimburse the state for the cost or the reasonable portion of the cost incurred by the state relating to that commitment; provided, however, that a person committed, awaiting trial and not convicted, shall […]
§ 42-56-38.1. Prisoner telephone use. (a) When an inmate requests and receives a list of parties approved to receive telephone calls, the inmate shall be provided the option of using either a debit or collect call system to place such calls. Under the debit system, either the cost of such service shall be automatically deducted […]
