Title 42, Title 42 Affairs and Government

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, or the director’s…

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 d…

(a) The director of corrections, or the director’s 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 crimi…

(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 the director’s designee, may allow a person committed to the adult correctional institutions …

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 tra…

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 fo…

In the case of any person sentenced to imprisonment in the adult correctional institutions for a term of one year or less, the person shall be classified and placed in any custodial care and employment that shall be deemed appropriate by the director.

(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 perso…

(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 …

(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 …

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 …

(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 them to keep the peace upon complaint for threats, shall…

(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…

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 abili…

(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 any civil action, may be permitted to la…

Whenever any person shall die in any of the correctional institutions, the director, or the director’s 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 application…

(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 for good behavior. (b) The director, or th…

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 the directo…

Whenever a prisoner shall be discharged he or she shall be decently clothed, and the director, or the director’s 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 the case of every prisoner …

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 impos…

To establish security standards that will safeguard society and that 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 perso…

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,…

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 …

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 to the director the security cla…

Within the department of corrections there shall be a classification unit under the supervision of the director, or the director’s designee, which shall collect and record all of the data concerning each person sentenced to the adult correctional institutions. This unit shall per…

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.

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 mainta…

(a) There are hereby transferred to the department of administration: (1) Those functions of the department of corrections that were administered through or with respect to departmental programs in the performance of strategic planning as defined in § 42-11-10(c); (2) All officer…

(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 subj…

(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, awai…

(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 automatical…

No charge shall be made for furnishing a health record or part of a health record to any individual currently or formerly under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections, his or her attorney, or other authorized representative if the record or part of the record is necess…

All acts, bills, and resolutions having an effect on the revenues, expenditures, fiscal liability, bed space, staff, or programs of the department of corrections, which can be calculated with reasonable accuracy, by establishing or extending a mandatory minimum term of imprisonme…

All of the functions, services, and duties of the department of corrections shall be organized by the director with the approval of the governor according to the following divisions: (1) Institutions/operations shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the administration …

Whenever a treaty is in force between the United States and a foreign country providing for the transfer or exchange of convicted offenders to the country of which they are citizens or nationals, the governor may, on behalf of the state and subject to the terms of the treaty, aut…

Every word, phrase, clause, section, subsection, or any of the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable from the whole, and a declaration of unenforceability or unconstitutionality of any portion of this section by a judicial court of competent jurisdiction, shall …

If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisi…

The director of the department of corrections, subject to the provisions of chapter 4 of title 36, shall be the appointing authority for all employees of the department, and the director may assign this function to those subordinate officers and employees that may to the director…

(a) The department, in conjunction with the performance management staff at the office of management and budget, shall monitor the implementation of justice reinvestment policies for the period from 2017 to 2022, utilizing a benefit-cost model, such as the one developed and suppo…

The director, or the director’s designee, shall have the management, supervision, and control of the adult correctional institutions. The department or the appropriate division of the department also shall operate and repair the buildings, grounds, and other physical property at …

(a) Authority. The division of rehabilitative services, subject to the authority of the director, shall perform the functions relating to the parole and probation of adults as prescribed by this chapter and chapters 18 and 19 of title 12, and under those rules and regulations ado…

The department shall have a seal which shall have engraved upon it the words “Department of Corrections, State of Rhode Island,” and the seal shall be affixed to all written contracts which the department is authorized and directed to make under the provisions of this chapter, an…

The omission in this chapter of a citation of any general law or public law now in force that makes it mandatory upon or permissive for any department, division, or other agency of the state to perform certain functions that by this act are assigned or transferred to the departme…

The Fort Adams foundation (“the foundation”) is created a body, corporate and politic, to promote interest in and to plan, develop, coordinate, encourage, facilitate, set standards, and programs and projects relating to the restoration, renovation, reconstruction, and use of the …

In order to achieve the objective and to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the foundation shall, in close cooperation with and through recommendations to the director of the department of environmental management, initiate, coordinate, and support planning, development, and…

(a) The foundation shall consist of the director of the department of environmental management, or the director’s designee, a representative of the division of parks and recreation appointed by the director of the department of environmental management, and three (3) public membe…