When Leadership Rhode Island alumni approached the RIDOC looking for a holiday project that would enable them to help needy teens, they were told that the greatest need was for new toys and games to be used in the Saturday morning visitation program. On Friday, November 21st, two cartons of new...
"Holidays Not Forgotten," a volunteer-run community program at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, is currently underway. Inmates in the parenting program create holiday wish lists with their children that are sent to "Holidays Not Forgotten." The program then solicits volunteers to '...
For Immediate Release Contact: George or Camille Camp
November 18, 2008 Phone: 860.704.6410
At its annual awards dinner on November 15th, 2008, the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) honored Ashbel T. (“A.T.”) Wall, Director of the Rhode Island Department of...
It was news to his colleagues from the Department of Corrections when Records & ID Captain Frederick Haibon was called to the podium during the Rhode Island State Police’s annual Promotion and Award Ceremony last week to receive the Colonel Chaffee Award for his role at the scene of an accident...
Joshua Joyal says he “didn’t care about anything or anybody and was heading down a bad path” until “Blaze,” an assistance dog he was paired with in 1987 through NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans changed his perspective and helped him to grow up. Although “Blaze” died in...
Debra Gilbert of East Providence, a Correctional Officer in the Dorothea Dix Women’s Minimum Security Facility of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, became the first Correctional Officer to be presented with a Heroes in the Fight award by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (Rhode...
Joseph Lopes of Warwick, R.I., a Correctional Officers with the Rhode Island Department of Corrections’ men’s Minimum Security Facility, recently received the Northeast Regional Staff Award from the Northeast Regional Correctional Industries Association.
Officer Lopes joined the Department...
The Rhode Island Family Life Center, the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, and the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training will co-sponsor an employer development event titled Alternative Workforce Opportunities at the Biltmore Hotel on Thursday, November 13th, from 5pm – 8:30pm. The...
The Rhode Island Department of Corrections has been chosen by the Writers’ Circle’s as one of its destinations for readings and workshops to be offered throughout the state as part of its Power to the Poets project. Rhode Island Poet Laureate Lisa Starr will be joined by poets Chris Stewart (...
The Rhode Island Department of Corrections is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Brown University, The Brown Education Link Lecture Series, which began in mid-October. Created by Brown senior Jonathan Coleman, a Literary Arts major from Santa Cruz, California, the program brings a...
