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2009 Rhode Island Code
Title 42 - State Affairs and Government
CHAPTER 42-56 - Corrections Department
- § 42-56-1 - Declaration of policy.
- § 42-56-2 - Establishment of department Director.
- § 42-56-3 - Transfer of functions from the department of human services.
- § 42-56-4 - Organization of department.
- § 42-56-5 - Director to be the appointing authority.
- § 42-56-6 - Management of institutions.
- § 42-56-7 - Parole and probation.
- § 42-56-8 - Departmental seal.
- § 42-56-9 - Authority of department broadly construed.
- § 42-56-10 - Powers of the director.
- § 42-56-11 - 42-56-13. [Repealed.].
- § 42-56-14 - Buildings and grounds comprising institutions.
- § 42-56-14.1 - Statutory references to former institutions.
- § 42-56-15 - References to jailers and jail keepers.
- § 42-56-16 - Deputy warden and employees, women's division, adult correctional institutions.
- § 42-56-17 - Identification and description of inmates.
- § 42-56-18 - Inmate furloughs.
- § 42-56-19 - Educational and vocational training unit.
- § 42-56-20 - Care and employment of short term prisoners.
- § 42-56-20.1 - [Repealed.].
- § 42-56-20.2 - Community confinement.
- § 42-56-20.3 - Community correctional program for women offenders.
- § 42-56-20.4 - [Repealed.].
- § 42-56-20.5 - Establishment of a women's transitional housing facility.
- § 42-56-20.6 - Restitution mandatory Prior to community confinement.
- § 42-56-21 - Labor of prisoners committed for criminal offense, qui tam, penal action, or failure to give recognizance.
- § 42-56-21.1 - Notification upon work release.
- § 42-56-21.2 - Restitution mandatory Prior to work release.
- § 42-56-22 - Labor by persons committed on mesne process or to answer criminal charge.
- § 42-56-23 - Body of deceased inmate.
- § 42-56-24 - Earned time for good behavior or program participation or completion.
- § 42-56-25 - [Repealed.].
- § 42-56-26 - Additional time allowed for meritorious service.
- § 42-56-27 - Clothing and payment of discharged prisoners.
- § 42-56-28 - Prisoners previously sentenced.
- § 42-56-29 - Receiving and orientation unit Study of incoming prisoners.
- § 42-56-30 - Classification board.
- § 42-56-31 - Determination of classification and rehabilitation programs of prisoners.
- § 42-56-32 - Classification unit.
- § 42-56-33 - Training school for youth.
- § 42-56-34 - Designation of land and buildings for training school for youth.
- § 42-56-35 - [Repealed.].
- § 42-56-36 - Transfer of powers and functions from department of corrections.
- § 42-56-37 - Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing.
- § 42-56-38 - Assessment of costs.
- § 42-56-38.1 - Prisoner telephone use.
- § 42-56-39 - A prison impact statement.
- § 42-56-40 - Transfer of foreign convicted offenders under treaty.
- § 42-56-41 - Severability.
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