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McKee names interim R.I. Department of Corrections director

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee has appointed Lynne Corry as interim director of the R.I. Department of Corrections, replacing outgoing Director Wayne T....

Salisbury stepping down as R.I. Department of Corrections director

PROVIDENCE – Richard Ferruccio, president of the Rhode Island Brotherhood of Correctional Officers, didn't mince words after learning Wayne T. Salisbury Jr. is leaving...

Are Rhode Island leaders doing enough to quell rising tensions at...

Rhode Island Brotherhood of Correctional Officers President Richard Ferruccio said recently that the state prison in Cranston ‘is out of control.’ A staff shortage of...
OUT OF ­CONTROL? ­Ten­sions are rising at the state prison in Cranston. Correctional officers union President Richard Ferruccio says violence, gang and drug activity are rampant. 
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State must heed union call prison is ‘out of control’

The president of the union at Rhode Island’s state prison told PBN violence at the Cranston facility “is now at a level I’ve never...

Correctional officers union: ‘Our prison is out of control’

Conflict between the Rhode Island Brotherhood of Correctional Officers and R.I. Department of Corrections Director Wayne T. Salisbury Jr. over prison operations has once...

RIDOC upgrades tech, adds computer and manufacturing classes for inmates in...

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee recently praised the R.I. Department of Corrections for its expanded reentry services, technology and infrastructure improvements, and new educational...
THE LAST MILE, a California-based nonprofit, has partnered with the R.I. Department of Corrections and Gov. Daniel J. McKee's office to launch a new technical skills program to help educate incarcerated individuals on technology and get them employed upon release from prison.

State partners with nonprofit on tech job training for incarcerated individuals

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Corrections and Gov. Daniel J. McKee’s Office have partnered with a California-based nonprofit on a new technical skills...
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