Title 13, Title 13 — Correctional Institutions

(a) The respective hours of service of the police matrons shall be so arranged by the authorities in charge of the police department that: (1) In the city of Providence, at least one matron shall be on duty at all hours of the day and night; and (2) In each of the other cities or…

The police matron shall have, subject only to the general control of the head of the police department, the entire care of all women held under arrest in the station in which she serves or to which she is attached, and may at any time call upon any police officer in the station f…

In every station in which a police matron serves, or to which a police matron is attached, sufficient and proper accommodations shall be provided for women confined under arrest. In case those accommodations shall be insufficient or improper, the matron shall notify the police ch…

Whenever, in any city or town where any police matron shall be appointed under this chapter, a woman is arrested and taken to a police station to which a matron is attached, and where the matron is not then present, it shall be the duty of the officer in charge of the station to …

At least one police matron in each city or town shall be designated by the chief of police of the city or town to attend before the district and police courts at all times when any woman is to be arraigned before the court, and that matron shall have charge of all women there in …

The salary of the police matrons in each city or town shall be fixed by the city or town council.

Every person imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions for life shall, with respect to all rights of property, to the bond of matrimony and to all civil rights and relations of any nature whatsoever, be deemed to be dead in all respects, as if his or her natural death had…

(a) Every person who, while holding elective public office, is convicted of a felony and has exhausted all appeals shall forfeit that public office. The public office shall automatically become vacant by operation of law at the time when the conviction becomes final. The vacancy …

If any of the provisions of § 13-6-2.1 or the application of those provisions to any person or circumstances is held to be invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the section which can be given effect without the invalid provision or applicat…

No person who shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the adult correctional institutions shall have any power, during his or her imprisonment, to make a will, or any conveyance of his or her property, or of any part of that property, except by permission of the superior court gran…

Whenever any person shall be imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions for life or for a term of seven (7) years or more, any creditor of that person may apply to the probate court of the city or town in which the prisoner last lived and was domiciled in this state, or in…

The court may, after giving notice to all interested persons, grant the petition as provided in § 13-6-4 and do all other things required and authorized to be done in the settlement of the estate of a deceased person.

Every administrator who shall be appointed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall have the same powers, be subject to the same liabilities, and discharge the same duties as an administrator of the estate of a deceased person.

The bond given by the administrator appointed pursuant to § 13-6-5 shall secure to the prisoner, after he or she shall be discharged from the adult correctional institutions, whatever shall remain of his or her estate after payment of his or her debts, the expenses of settling hi…

This chapter shall be known as “An Act to Promote the State Use System of Industries in the Public Welfare Institutions”, and shall be interpreted to encourage the production of goods and merchandise in the public welfare institutions of this state.

The price of all articles and materials supplied by the public welfare institutions shall conform as nearly as practicable to the wholesale market rates for similar goods manufactured elsewhere. Any difference of opinion in regard to price shall be submitted for arbitration to a …

The director of corrections or his or her designee shall, from time to time, meet with the state purchasing agent to develop standards for commodities manufactured and produced by penal industries, and to prepare and secure compacts or agreements for the purchase of commodities f…

The director of corrections or his or her designee shall establish certain standards of production, and shall by consultation and meeting with the state purchasing agent and the managing officers and purchasing agents of municipal offices, departments, and institutions determine …

If articles or materials of a different design, style, or quality than those produced are needed by any state department or institution, the director of corrections may, if a sufficient quantity is needed, arrange for their manufacture of them on special order.

Any officer who willfully neglects or refuses to comply with the provisions of this chapter relative to the purchase of articles and materials from the public welfare institutions shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each violation.

Correctional industries shall maintain an accurate and timely accounting of monies received from the sale of products or services of committed offenders. Monies accredited into the correctional industries fund shall be used for the purchase of materials, supervision, and other re…

“Public welfare institutions” as used in this chapter means the adult correctional institutions.

(a) The director of the department of corrections may establish within any of the institutions under his or her control vocational training programs, and programs for the actual manufacture, assembly, repair, fabrication, servicing, and production of commercially saleable commodi…

The provisions of this chapter, and all other regulations and laws of this state not inconsistent with this chapter, shall apply to all goods, wares, and merchandise manufactured or mined, wholly or in part, by convicts or prisoners (except prisoners on parole or probation), or m…

For the purpose of this chapter, the provisions of § 13-7-3 shall not include: (1) The sale or exchange of convict-made goods produced in the public welfare institutions of this state, to or with other reformatory or custodial institutions, for their own consumption or use; (2) T…

(a) The department of corrections shall cause any articles and materials that are used in the offices, departments, or institutions of the state and of the several cities and towns to be produced by the labor of inmates in the public welfare institutions. (b) From time to time th…

When the state purchasing agent or agent of any state office, department, or institution has occasion to purchase any articles, services or materials similar to those produced in the adult correctional institutions, and notification of that production has been given to him or her…

When the purchasing agent or the managing officer of any city or town office, department, or institution, has occasion to purchase any articles, services or materials similar to those produced at the adult correctional institutions, he or she shall notify the director of correcti…

The department of corrections may accept orders from any 501(c)(3) for any articles, services, or materials similar to those produced at the adult correctional institutions.

Within the department of corrections there shall be a parole board consisting of seven (7) qualified electors of the state appointed by the governor. In the month of January in each year, the governor shall appoint one or more members of the board to serve in place of members who…

(a) If a prisoner is confined upon more than one sentence, a parole permit may be issued whenever he or she has served a term equal to one-third (⅓) of the aggregate time which he or she shall be liable to serve under his or her several sentences, unless he or she has been senten…

(a) In computing the one-third (⅓) of any term of sentence for the purpose of §§ 13-8-9 — 13-8-14, the time a prisoner shall have earned pursuant to §§ 42-56-24 and 42-56-26 shall be considered by the parole board to reduce inmate overcrowding when directed by the criminal justic…

(a) In the case of a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for life, a parole permit may be issued at any time after the prisoner has served not less than ten (10) years’ imprisonment; provided that: (1) In the case of a prisoner serving a sentence or sentences of a length making hi…

(a) A permit shall not be issued to any prisoner under the authority of §§ 13-8-9 -13-8-13 unless it shall appear to the parole board: (1) That the prisoner has substantially observed the rules of the institution in which confined, as evidenced by reports submitted to the board b…

(a) At least once each calendar year the parole board shall adopt standards to be utilized by the board in evaluating applications for parole of persons convicted of a criminal offense and sentenced to the adult correctional institutions. These standards shall establish, with the…

(a) When a person who is serving a sentence imposed as the result of an offense or offenses committed when he or she was less than eighteen years of age becomes eligible for parole pursuant to applicable provisions of law, the parole board shall ensure that he or she is provided …

(a) Every permit issued by the parole board under this chapter shall entitle the prisoner to whom it is issued to be at liberty upon parole during the remainder of the term which he or she is under sentence to serve, upon any terms and conditions that the board may see fit in its…

Every person who shall be placed on parole for a violation of any section of chapter 28 of title 21 prohibiting the unlawful sale, distribution, manufacturing, delivery or possession with intent to manufacture, sell, distribute, or deliver any controlled substance classified in S…

(a) For the duration of the prisoner’s parole, the assistant director of field services or his or her designee shall report on the adjustment of the parolee to the parole board at the end of each six (6) months of parole. (b) If at any time there is evidence of a violation of any…

The parole board may, by a majority vote of all of its members, revoke, in accordance with the provisions of § 13-8-18.1, any permit issued by it to any prisoner under the provisions of this chapter or revoke any permit issued by another state or jurisdiction where the prisoner i…

(a) As soon as is practicable after a detention for an alleged violation of parole, the parole board shall afford the alleged parole violator a preliminary parole revocation hearing before a hearing officer designated by the board. The hearing officer shall not have had any prior…

(a) Whenever the permit of a prisoner is revoked, in accordance with the provisions of § 13-8-18.1 the parole board shall order the prisoner to be returned to the adult correctional institutions or to the women’s division of the adult correctional institutions, as the case may be…

The seven (7) electors to be named by the governor shall have the following qualifications: (1)(i) One of the qualified electors shall be a psychologist or a physician who is professionally qualified in the field of psychiatry or neurology; (ii) One shall be a member in good stan…

If a prisoner, at the time the prisoner’s permit is revoked, is confined in any penal institution on any criminal process or under sentence for any offense committed while the prisoner was at liberty upon parole, the order of the parole board for the prisoner’s return to the adul…

All permits and orders of the parole board issued under the authority of this chapter shall be signed by the chairperson and one other member of the board. The board shall have a seal which shall be affixed to all permits and orders issued by it, and to all warrants issued by the…

The parole board, in the discharge of its duties under this chapter, shall not be required to receive or consider any petition, and it may secure the information upon which it exercises its authority, or upon which it makes its findings in any case, in any manner and by any means…