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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
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IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
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JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2012 | |
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON | |
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NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE | |
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CONSTRUCTIONS | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Ajello, Mattiello, Cimini, and Fox | |
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Date Introduced: June 12, 2012 | |
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Referred To: House read and passed | |
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It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
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SECTION 1. Legislative findings.- The general assembly finds and declares that: |
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(1) Roberta Richman, Assistant Director of Rehabilitative Services for the Rhode Island |
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department of corrections, oversees community corrections including probation, parole, and home |
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confinement, education and vocational training, health services, substance abuse treatment and |
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many specialized counseling programs. She also supervises inmate reentry activities designed to |
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bridge the gap between institutional services and community corrections. |
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(2) Ms. Richman began her career in RIDOC in 1979 as an Arts program coordinator. |
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She became the administrator of educational services in 1982, the director of prison industries in |
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1986 and in 1991 was appointed warden of the women's facilities. During the ten years of her |
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tenure as warden, she introduced many innovative programs for female offenders. |
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(3) As assistant director of rehabilitative services, Ms. Richman has focused attention on |
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prisoner reentry, the building of a continuum of care for offenders that begins immediately upon |
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entry into the criminal justice system and is intended to prepare the offender, his/her family and |
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the community, for successful release from prison. She believes that corrections alone cannot do |
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all that is needed to help prisoners rebuild their lives and has built partnerships with many |
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community agencies and public safety organizations in our cities and towns who now work |
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actively with the DOC on prisoner reentry initiatives. |
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SECTION 2. Chapter 22-7.4 of the General Laws entitled "Permanent Joint Committee |
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on Naming All New Buildings, Bridges, Edifices and Other State Constructions" is hereby |
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amended by adding thereto the following section: |
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22-7.4-116. Roberta Richman Way. -- The unnamed street located in the city of |
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Cranston, Rhode Island on the easterly side of Howard Avenue and extending to West Road and |
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located adjacent to Margaret Walsh Park shall herein after be named and known as "Roberta |
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Richman Way." |
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SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
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BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
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OF | |
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RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON | |
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NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE | |
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CONSTRUCTIONS | |
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This act would name an unnamed street in Cranston after Roberta Richman. |
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This act would take effect upon passage. |
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