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RI Gen L § 42-55.1-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-55.1 - Housing Trust Fund|Section 42-55.1-2 - Definitions.

§ 42-55.1-2. Definitions.Terms used in this chapter shall be defined as follows:(1) "Limited equity housing cooperative" means a cooperative housing association or corporation organized and operated primarily for the benefit of low and moderate income persons, having articles of incorporation approved by the executive director of the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation, and whose equity, after allowance for maximum transfer value of its stock, is permanently dedicated to providing housing to persons of low or moderate income or to a charitable purpose.(2) "Mutual housing association" means a nonprofit corporation, incorporated pursuant to chapter 6 of title 7 and having articles of incorporation approved by the executive director of the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation, having as one of its purposes the prevention and elimination of neighborhood deterioration and the preservation of neighborhood stability by affording community and resident involvement in the provision of high quality, long-term housing for low and moderate income families in which residents:(i) Participate in the ongoing operation and management of that housing;(ii) Have the right to continue residing in the housing for as long as they comply with the terms of their occupancy agreement; and(iii) Do not possess an equity or ownership interest in the housing.(3) "Nonprofit housing development corporation" means a nonprofit corporation, which has been approved as a 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) corporation by the Internal Revenue Service, and which is organized and operated primarily for the purpose of providing housing for low and moderate income persons.History of Section.P.L. 1988, ch. 617, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-55.1-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-55.1 - Housing Trust Fund|Section 42-55.1-3 - Housing trust fund development assistance.

§ 42-55.1-3. Housing trust fund development assistance.(a) The Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation is authorized and directed to provide financial assistance, in the form of grants, loans, or any combination of these, to mutual housing associations, nonprofit housing development corporations and/or limited equity housing cooperatives, and other qualified persons and entities pursuant to § 42-55.1-1, for use in the purchase, acquisition, construction and/or production of decent, safe, and sanitary rental and home ownership housing, affordable to low and moderate income persons and families in Rhode Island.(b) The Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation is authorized and directed to promulgate those rules and regulations that may be necessary and appropriate to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. These rules and regulations shall include, but need not be limited to:(1) Application procedures for mutual housing associations, nonprofit housing development corporations, limited equity housing corporations and other qualified persons and entities seeking financial assistance under this section;(2) Specific criteria for use in evaluating applications for financial assistance under this chapter, which criteria shall be designed to maximize the availability of affordable rental and home ownership housing in this state and the efficient use of monies available for that purpose in the housing trust fund;(3) Reasonable mandatory requirements and restrictions designed to assure that any housing that may be purchased, acquired, constructed and/or produced with financial assistance under these provisions will be maintained and operated in a fair, decent, safe, and sanitary manner;(4) Standards for the corporate governance of entities, mutual housing associations, and limited equity housing cooperatives, including provisions for management services; and(5) Standards and application procedures including those rules and regulations that are necessary to establish either a line of credit or a blanket construction loan fund that provide financial assistance to qualified sponsors undertaking the development and construction of four (4) or more residential properties for sale to persons and families of low and moderate income in Rhode Island.History of Section.P.L. 1988, ch. 617, § 1; P.L. 1989, ch. 296, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 431, § 4.
RI Gen L § 42-55.1-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-55.1 - Housing Trust Fund|Section 42-55.1-4 - Annual report.

§ 42-55.1-4. Annual report.On or before January 15 of each calendar year, the Rhode Island housing and mortgage finance corporation shall submit an annual report to the governor and to the general assembly, detailing its implementation of this chapter and its administration of the housing trust fund during the preceding calendar year.History of Section.P.L. 1988, ch. 617, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-56-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-1 - Declaration of policy.

§ 42-56-1. Declaration of policy.(a) The general assembly finds and declares that:(1) The state has a basic obligation to protect the public by providing institutional confinement and care of offenders and evidence-based probation and parole supervision and, where appropriate, treatment in the community;(2) Efforts to rehabilitate and restore criminal offenders as law-abiding and productive members of society are essential to the reduction of crime;(3) Maintaining the quality and effectiveness of correctional institutions and rehabilitative services, both inside and outside correctional institutions, deserves priority consideration as a means of lowering crime rates and of preventing offenders, particularly youths, first-offenders, and misdemeanants, from becoming trapped in careers of crime; and(4) Correctional institutions, supervision, and services should be so diversified in program and personnel as to facilitate individualized treatment.(b) The purpose of this chapter is to establish a department of state government to provide for the supervision, custody, care, discipline, training, and treatment of persons committed to state correctional institutions or on probation or parole, so that those persons may be prepared for release, aftercare, and supervision in the community.History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 163, § 1; P.L. 2017, ch. 343, § 2; P.L. 2017, ch. 349, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-56-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-2 - Establishment of department - Director.

§ 42-56-2. Establishment of department — Director.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 forth in § 42-6-3.History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 163, § 1; P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1; P.L. 1980, ch. 191, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 183, 2.
RI Gen L § 42-56-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-3 - Transfer of functions from the department of human services.

§ 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, or commissions of the division of correctional services.(2) Those functions of the department of social and rehabilitative services which were administered through or with respect to the division of correctional services to include generally and specifically, the correctional institutions, the probation services, and other similar functions.(3) So much of other functions or parts of functions of the director of the department of human services as is incidental to or necessary for the performance of the functions transferred by this section.History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 163, § 1; P.L. 1976, ch. 259, § 1; P.L. 1979, ch. 71, § 1; P.L. 1982, ch. 158, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 208, § 3; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 29, § 5.
RI Gen L § 42-56-4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-4 - Organization of department.

§ 42-56-4. Organization of department.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 generally and specifically of the state's correctional institutions, and other similar or appropriate functions as determined by the director with the approval of the governor.(2) Administration shall include, but not necessarily be limited to, the administration generally and specifically of all central management, financial, personnel, and budgetary functions, the provisions of central technical services and other services concerned with the business and servicing operations of the department, planning and research, management information systems, human resources, training, and labor relations, and those other similar or appropriate functions that are determined by the director with the approval of the governor.(3) Rehabilitative services shall include industries, health services, intermediary sanctions (including, but not limited to, half-way houses, day reporting centers, home confinement, probation, parole, restitution, and community service) and work release, and any other programs of intermediate punishments established pursuant to the provisions of § 12-19-23.2.(4) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all of the functions, services, and duties of the department of corrections may be, from time to time, reorganized by the director with the approval of the governor.History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 163, § 1; P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 183, § 2; P.L. 1993, ch. 205, § 2; P.L. 2001, ch. 77, art. 29, § 5.
RI Gen L § 42-56-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-5 - Director to be the appointing authority.

§ 42-56-5. Director to be the appointing authority.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 he or she may assign this function to those subordinate officers and employees that may to him or her seem feasible or desirable. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the director shall appoint the assistant directors in charge of the divisions of the department created pursuant to § 42-56-4, as amended. The assistant director, institution/operations, the assistant director, rehabilitative services, and the assistant director, administration, shall be in the unclassified service, shall serve at the pleasure of the director, and shall be subject to the authority and supervision of the director who may assign to them those tasks and functions that the director deems appropriate in order to ensure the proper management and administration of the department.History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 163, § 1; P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1; P.L. 1984, ch. 214, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 183, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-56-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-6 - Management of institutions.

§ 42-56-6. Management of institutions.The director, or his or her 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 those institutions.History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 163, § 1; P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 183, § 2; P.L. 1992, ch. 496, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-56-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-8 - Departmental seal.

§ 42-56-8. Departmental seal.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, and the contracts shall be signed by the director of the department. The seal shall also be affixed to those other orders and papers issued by the department that the department may by rule or order direct.History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 163, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-56-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-9 - Authority of department broadly construed.

§ 42-56-9. Authority of department broadly construed.The omission in this chapter of a citation of any general law or public law now in force which makes it mandatory upon or permissive for any department, division, or other agency of the state to perform certain functions which by this act are assigned or transferred to the department of corrections shall not (unless otherwise clearly intended) suspend or annul the right of the department of corrections to carry out those functions.History of Section.P.L. 1972, ch. 163, § 14.
RI Gen L § 42-56-11 - 42-56-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-11 - 42-56-13 - Repealed.

§ 42-56-11 — 42-56-13. Repealed.
RI Gen L § 42-56-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-14 - Buildings and grounds comprising institutions.

§ 42-56-14. Buildings and grounds comprising institutions.The buildings comprising the state prison, men's reformatory, reformatory for women, the county jail in the county of Providence, all of which are located in Cranston, and the grounds surrounding those buildings and any other buildings and grounds, wherever located, that shall be maintained for those purposes, are declared to be the adult correctional institutions of the state.History of Section.P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-56-14.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-14.1 - Statutory references to former institutions.

§ 42-56-14.1. Statutory references to former institutions.Whenever, in any general or special law, reference is, or shall be, made to the state prison, the men's reformatory, the reformatory for women, the Providence County jail, or the jail or jails in the several counties, that reference shall mean, and be construed to mean, the adult correctional institutions of the state.History of Section.P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-56-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-15 - References to jailers and jail keepers.

§ 42-56-15. References to jailers and jail keepers.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 his or her designee.History of Section.P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 183, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-56-16 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-16 - Deputy warden and employees, women's division, adult correctional institutions.

§ 42-56-16. Deputy warden and employees, women's division, adult correctional institutions.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 deemed necessary for the proper management of the women's division.History of Section.P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 183, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-56-17 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-17 - Identification and description of inmates.

§ 42-56-17. Identification and description of inmates.The director of corrections, or his or her 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 criminals. The director of corrections, or his or her designee, shall cause identification to be made by a person or persons in the official service of the state, and shall prescribe rules and regulations for keeping accurate records at those institutions, and for classifying and indexing the records.History of Section.P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1; P.L. 1991, ch. 183, § 2.
RI Gen L § 42-56-19 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-19 - Educational and vocational training unit.

§ 42-56-19. Educational and vocational training unit.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 training unit whose duties it shall be to determine the needs and the aptitude of that person and to furnish the means that shall be best designed to effect the rehabilitation.History of Section.P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-56-20 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-20 - Care and employment of short term prisoners.

§ 42-56-20. Care and employment of short term prisoners.In the case of any person sentenced to imprisonment in the adult correctional institutions for a term of one year or less, he or she shall be classified and placed in any custodial care and employment that shall be deemed appropriate by the director.History of Section.P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-56-20.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-20.1 - Repealed.

§ 42-56-20.1. Repealed.
RI Gen L § 42-56-20.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-20.4 - Repealed.

§ 42-56-20.4. Repealed.
RI Gen L § 42-56-20.5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-20.5 - Establishment of a women's transitional housing facility.

§ 42-56-20.5. Establishment of a women's transitional housing facility.(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 staff secure facility with twenty-four (24) hour seven (7) day per week supervision. Security measures will include an alarm system, bed checks, work/school/home visits, random urine tests and room searches. While in the program, offenders will work with staff and probation counselors to develop plans for follow-up service and activities after release. Upon discharge, probation counselors will monitor follow-up plans in conjunction with case managers.(b) The re-entry program shall consist of life training skills including, but not limited to, parenting, money management, housing and employment, with an emphasis on vocational and educational assessment counseling, training, and job development and placement. In addition, the program shall offer alcoholism/addictive treatment, health education, group and family counseling, parenting education, counseling for sexual abuse, and domestic violence and mental health care.(c) There shall be acquired an appropriate residential unit to house twelve (12) to fifteen (15) women, consisting of at least eight (8) bedrooms sufficient to house two (2) women each, a dining area and kitchen to seat up to fifteen (15) women, visiting areas, children's visiting space, group and individual treatment rooms, and administrative areas for staff and records.History of Section.P.L. 2000, ch. 207, § 1; P.L. 2000, ch. 230, § 1.
RI Gen L § 42-56-20.6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-20.6 - Restitution mandatory - Prior to community confinement.

§ 42-56-20.6. Restitution mandatory — Prior to community confinement.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 person has the ability to pay. This agreement shall be in writing, and it shall be the burden of the person seeking community confinement to satisfy the sentencing judge or the department of corrections, whichever is applicable, that this requirement has been met. Any person subject to the provisions of this section may request an ability to pay hearing by filing the request with the court that imposed the original sentence.History of Section.P.L. 1995, ch. 94, § 3.
RI Gen L § 42-56-21.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 42 - State Affairs and Government|Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department|Section 42-56-21.1 - Notification upon work release.

§ 42-56-21.1. Notification upon work release.(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 police department in the community where the crime for which the prisoner was sentenced was committed, and the police department in the community where the prisoner was residing at the time of the commission of the offense, and the police department in the community where the prisoner will be working.(b) Prior to making a final determination on whether to place a prisoner imprisoned for any crime for which a life sentence has been imposed in the work release program, the director shall notify, in writing, the victim of the crime or a member of the immediate family of the victim if the crime is a homicide, if any is identified, and the police department of the city or town where the inmate lived prior to incarceration and the police department where the crime was committed and the police department where the inmate is to be working that the prisoner is under consideration for work release. No final decision regarding the placement of the prisoner in the work release program shall be made until the victim or the family of the victim and the police departments so notified have been afforded at least ten (10) days in which to comment, in writing, to the director on the proposed release. The director shall consider the comments of the victim or the victim's family and the police prior to making a final determination.History of Section.P.L. 1984, ch. 223, § 2; P.L. 1991, ch. 362, § 1.