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The Wyatt Detention Facility is overseen by the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation. (Mary Serreze/Patch)
PROVIDENCE, RI A Rhode Island Senate committee hearing drew testimony from dozens of advocates who expressed support for a slate of prison reform bills introduced by Sen. Jonathon Acosta, the Central Falls Democrat.
The measures were heard Monday before a joint meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Finance Committee. The corrections bills in their entirety would effectively shut down the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls when the prison s contract with the city expires.
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Rally at ACI identifies inmate who died Feb. 9, calls for guards to follow protocols Donita Naylor, The Providence Journal © Katie Mulvaney/The Providence Journal One of the buildings at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston that Sunday s car-rally organizers included in their protest.
CRANSTON A car rally Sunday afternoon renewed the cry for decarceration and called for corrections officers to be held accountable for not following protocols.
The weekly rally was held this time in memory of the inmate who died Feb. 9 in medium security, identified by organizers as Jose Franco.
ACI officials have not confirmed that the inmate was Franco, but court records show that Jose Franco, 46, who was returned to the ACI in July as a violator of the terms of his release, was deceased. He had been arrested Feb. 19, 2020, by Cranston police for failing, as a sexual offender, to notify police of his change of address. The judge suspended two years and gave him
The Providence Journal
CRANSTON A car rally Sunday afternoon renewed the cry for decarceration and called for corrections officers to be held accountable for not following protocols.
The weekly rally was held this time in memory of the inmate who died Feb. 9 in medium security, identified by organizers as Jose Franco.
ACI officials have not confirmed that the inmate was Franco, but court records show that Jose Franco, 46, who was returned to the ACI in July as a violator of the terms of his release, was deceased. He had been arrested Feb. 19, 2020, by Cranston police for failing, as a sexual offender, to notify police of his change of address. The judge suspended two years and gave him three years probation. A subsequent arrest for obstructing police violated the terms of his release, and he was sent back to serve the full term.
CRANSTON A veteran correctional officer who led teams at the Adult Correctional Institutions’ facility for women as a lieutenant has died after a battle with COVID-19.
The death of Lt. Russell Freeman early Monday morning due to complications from the disease was announced Monday by Rhode Island Department of Corrections Director, Patricia A. Coyne-Fague.
“It is with a heavy heart that I must report the loss of Lt. Russell Freeman,” Coyne-Fague said in a statement, referring to Freeman’s death as a “terrible loss.”
Freeman leaves behind his wife, Lisa Favino-Freeman, also a correctional officer, and three children.
Freeman launched his career at the department in 1991, was promoted to its special investigations unit in 2006, where he was known for “tenacity and professionalism,” says the release.
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