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UpdatedTue, May 18, 2021 at 8:04 pm ET Reply 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. ....
Catherine Welch Catherine Welch is news director at Rhode Island Public Radio. Before her move to Rhode Island in 2010, Catherine was news director at WHQR in Wilmington, NC. She was also news director at KBIA in Columbia, MO where she was a faculty member at the University Of Missouri School Of Journalism. Catherine has won several regional Edward R. Murrow awards and awards from the Public Radio News Directors Inc., New England AP, North Carolina Press Association, Missouri Press Association, and Missouri Broadcasters Association. Now that she manages a full newsroom she files less regularly for NPR’s All Things Considered, ....