§ 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.
Structure Rhode Island General Laws
Title 42 - State Affairs and Government
Chapter 42-56 - Corrections Department
Section 42-56-1. - Declaration of policy.
Section 42-56-2. - Establishment of department — Director.
Section 42-56-3. - Transfer of functions from the department of human services.
Section 42-56-4. - Organization of department.
Section 42-56-5. - Director to be the appointing authority.
Section 42-56-5.1. - Justice reinvestment.
Section 42-56-6. - Management of institutions.
Section 42-56-7. - Parole and probation.
Section 42-56-8. - Departmental seal.
Section 42-56-9. - Authority of department broadly construed.
Section 42-56-10. - Powers of the director.
Section 42-56-11 - — 42-56-13. Repealed.
Section 42-56-14. - Buildings and grounds comprising institutions.
Section 42-56-14.1. - Statutory references to former institutions.
Section 42-56-15. - References to jailers and jail keepers.
Section 42-56-16. - Deputy warden and employees, women’s division, adult correctional institutions.
Section 42-56-17. - Identification and description of inmates.
Section 42-56-18. - Inmate furloughs.
Section 42-56-19. - Educational and vocational training unit.
Section 42-56-20. - Care and employment of short term prisoners.
Section 42-56-20.1. - Repealed.
Section 42-56-20.2. - Community confinement.
Section 42-56-20.3. - Community correctional program for women offenders.
Section 42-56-20.4. - Repealed.
Section 42-56-20.5. - Establishment of a women’s transitional housing facility.
Section 42-56-20.6. - Restitution mandatory — Prior to community confinement.
Section 42-56-21.1. - Notification upon work release.
Section 42-56-21.2. - Restitution mandatory — Prior to work release.
Section 42-56-22. - Labor by persons committed on mesne process or to answer criminal charge.
Section 42-56-23. - Body of deceased inmate.
Section 42-56-24. - Earned time for good behavior or program participation or completion.
Section 42-56-26. - Additional time allowed for meritorious service.
Section 42-56-27. - Clothing and payment of discharged prisoners.
Section 42-56-28. - Prisoners previously sentenced.
Section 42-56-29. - Receiving and orientation unit — Study of incoming prisoners.
Section 42-56-30. - Classification board.
Section 42-56-31. - Determination of classification and rehabilitation programs of prisoners.
Section 42-56-32. - Classification unit.
Section 42-56-33. - Training school for youth.
Section 42-56-34. - Designation of land and buildings for training school for youth.
Section 42-56-36. - Transfer of powers and functions from department of corrections.
Section 42-56-37. - Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing.
Section 42-56-38. - Assessment of costs.
Section 42-56-38.1. - Prisoner telephone use.
Section 42-56-38.2. - Furnishing of health records.
Section 42-56-39. - A prison impact statement.
Section 42-56-40. - Transfer of foreign convicted offenders under treaty.