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| Former RI DOC Leader Dies |
| By projo.com |
| Published: 02/23/2011 |
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NARRAGANSETT — Former corrections director John J. Moran, credited with leading the state prison out of the violent era of the 1970s and shepherding it through a decade of tumultuous, court-ordered improvements, died Tuesday after a long illness. He was 80. Moran retired in 1990 from the harsh glare of prison controversies to his quiet home in Narragansett, a short walk from Sand Hill Cove Beach, where he and his wife, Eileen, a travel agent, planned trips to distant places. But his accomplishments during his 12 1/2-year leadership of the Adult Correctional Institutions — then infamous for its deplorable conditions and the subject of a landmark overcrowding case — kept him in high esteem among many of his subordinates. “The thing that impressed me most about him was his honesty,” said Joseph DiNitto, who served as Moran’s assistant as well as his department spokesman. “His honesty and the fact that he was a true penologist. He knew prisons, from the infrastructure all the way out to community-based programs. He was the consummate director.” During his tenure, the chain-smoking, slightly built Moran earned the respect and admiration of even his adversaries as a straight-talking, sometimes gruff, but fair, administrator. Read More. |
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