Prison News | Rhode Island

Recent events, organized by category (below) or region/state (right), concerning the corrections industry in Rhode Island. Comments, suggestions and contributions (below) appreciated.

Contents

• Education & Rehabilitation
• Executions, Death Row, & the Death Penalty
• Gangs in Prison
• Health & Medical Treatment
• Prison Classification, Placement, and Release
• Prison Conditions & Corruption
• Prison Life & Prison Culture
• Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
• Suicides in Prison
• Workplace & Industry News and Science & Tech

Education & Rehabilitation

• Symposium addresses inmate reintegration Performances and discussion focus on importance of restoring Pell Grants to prisoners
  
  “Our beginnings have already been established, but our ends are nowhere in sight,” voiced performers from the College and Community Fellowship’s Theater for Social Change in a call for prison inmates to gain greater access to education at a symposium Tuesday....[more]
  Brown Daily Herald, Wednesday, September 17, 2014
  
  

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

No recent news for Rhode Island in this category.

Gangs in Prison

No recent news for Rhode Island in this category.

Health & Medical Treatment

• Psychiatry prof. talks health gaps in women’s prisons
  
  The criminal justice system must ensure both public safety and public health, said Jennifer Johnson, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior. But jails and prisons in the United States do not provide effective health care for their prisoners, especially women....[more]
  Brown Daily Herald, Sunday, November 2, 2014
  
  
• Addiction recovery center opens in RI prison
  
  CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) -- A new addiction recovery center is opening for imprisoned women in Rhode Island....[more]
  Associated Press, Monday, September 16, 2013
  
  

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

No recent news for Rhode Island in this category.

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Convicted ACI prison guard still collecting retirement pension
  
  PROVIDENCE — One of two former corrections officers convicted of assaulting and abusing inmates at the Adult Correctional Institutions continues to collect a retirement pension that pays him more than $4,000 — a month....[more]
  Providence Journal, Friday, July 19, 2013
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

No recent news for Rhode Island in this category.

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• RI prison locked down after threat found
  
  CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island's maximum security prison in Cranston was locked down for about 2½ hours after officials found a note threatening the killing of a correctional officer....[more]
  Associated Press, Friday, March 28, 2014
  
  

Suicides in Prison

No recent news for Rhode Island in this category.

Workplace & Industry News, and Science & Tech News

• What a Struggling Jail Means for Investors, Small Towns
  
  Rhode Island’s Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility has struggled since officials at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled out their detainees in 2008, following the death of a Chinese national held there. That pullout happened shortly after the facility expanded to hold 770 detained people....[more]
  Wall Street Journal, Thursday, October 16, 2014
  
  
• R.I. Department of Corrections looking for female officers
  
  PROVIDENCE — The Department of Corrections wants to see more women in prison — as correctional officers, that is....[more]
  Providence Journal, Tuesday, September 24, 2013
  
  

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