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| RI Inmate Residency Issues Debated |
| By projo.com |
| Published: 03/15/2010 |
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A group of Providence legislators have introduced bills that would change how the state counts inmates at the Adult Correctional Institutions, allocating them toward the towns they lived in before sentencing rather than as residents of Cranston, the home of the state’s prison complex. “It’s all about fairness,” said Rep. Joseph S. Almeida, D-Providence, primary sponsor of the house version of the plan. “These folks come from districts around the state and will be returning to them upon release.” One of the representatives of a district that could lose population if the bill were passed, Rep. Nicholas A. Mattiello, D-Cranston, the house majority leader, said he didn’t see a problem with it. “It’s a non-issue,” Mattiello said. “Either way, it’s fine for me.” As introduced, the bills wouldn’t affect how the U.S. Census Bureau counts ACI inmates, but it would change how the state uses the numbers. The idea is that each facility that incarcerates people for crimes, including mental institutions, would submit a list of all people they were holding on the day of the census and their last addresses before incarceration. Read More. |
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