Eight Rhode Island Department of Corrections inmates have donated their hair through the Locks of Love Program since the beginning of 2008. Locks of Love is a Florida-based non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the U.S. and Canada under age 18...
Cranston, June 26, 2008 – Patricia Threats, Principal Public Health Promotion Specialist with the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, and Debbie Matthieu, RIDOC’s Dietician, have teamed up to address the unique needs of the state’s rapidly growing population of female offenders. For the...
Cranston, June 17, 2008 -- On Thursday, June 19th, Sgt. Darryl Wallace and his wife, Tiffany, of Harlem, Ga., traveled with NEADS Director Sheila O’Brien and other staff from the NEADS campus in Princeton, Mass., to the John J. Moran Medium Security Facility where Darryl’s assistance dog “...
CRANSTON, R.I. – June 23, 2008 – The Planning & Research Unit at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections has released the 2007 Urinalysis Report, the sixth year for which the unit has produced such a report. The report details the number of specimens collected and tested, and the number...
CRANSTON, R.I. – June 5, 2008 – In keeping with its commitment to improving ex-offenders’ chances of success by providing educational opportunities during incarceration, the Rhode Island Department of Corrections will hold its annual recognition ceremonies in six of the state’s prison...
CRANSTON, R.I. – June 10, 2008 – When Richard Frechette, Project Manager for Statewide Prisoner Reentry, learned that evening meals were no longer being provided to residents of the overflow shelter at Harrington Hall on the Pastore Complex, he quickly thought of a workable solution. Since...
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CRANSTON, R.I. – May 16, 20008 – About 20 Rhode Island high schools and over 1,500 students will have heard the...
CRANSTON, R.I. – May 16, 2008 – With Rhode Island’s gloomy unemployment rate making headlines, the fact that the Rhode Island Department of Corrections is hiring should come as good news to those seeking a challenging career opportunity. The RIDOC is about halfway through the recruitment...
Contact: Tracey Z. Poole
RIDOC Media Relations
(401) 462-2609
CRANSTON, R.I. – May 12, 2008 – The Rhode Island Department of Corrections is pleased to announce RIDOC SPRING Media Day to be held on Thursday, June 5th, from 8:30 a.m. until approximately noon. The...
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Contact: Tracey Z. Poole
RIDOC Media Relations
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CRANSTON, R.I. – May 9, 2008 – Writer, poet, and teacher, Jimmy Santiago Baca, featured in a September 30, 2002 People Magazine profile titled From Jail to Yale, will offer a poetry and writing...
