CHAPTER 477
2000-H 7861
Enacted 7/20/2000


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RELATING TO CRIMINAL OFFENSES -- JAILS AND PRISONS

Introduced By:  Representative Faria Date Introduced:  February 15, 2000

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter 11-25 of the General Laws entitled "Jails and Prisons" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sections:

11-25-1.1. Escape from municipal detention facility. -- Every prisoner, detainee, or other person incarcerated or confined at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in the City of Central Falls who shall attempt to escape, or who shall escape, from the lawful custody of the director of the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility created under chapter 45-54 of the general laws shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned at the Adult Correctional Institution not more than three (3) years, or be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500); such term to commence at the expiration of the original term of imprisonment of the prisoner.

11-25-2.1. Assault by a municipal detention inmate. -- Every prisoner, detainee, or other person incarcerated or confined in the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility, created under chapter 45-54 of the general laws who shall assault the director or other detention center employees, shall be sentenced by the court to imprisonment at the Adult Correctional Institution, for not less than one year and no more than twenty (20)_ years, such term to commence at the expiration of the original term of imprisonment of the prisoner.

SECTION 2. Chapter 11-38 of the General Laws entitled "Riotous Assembly" is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:

11-38-5.1. Inciting riot at municipal detention facility . -- Any prisoner, detainee or other person incarcerated or confined at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in the city of Central Falls who, with intent to cause a riotous assembly at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility created under chapter 45-54 of the general laws shall incite a riot or any continuance of a riot or destruction of property while rioting, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned at the Adult Correctional Institution for a term not to exceed ten (10) years or be fined an amount not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or both, such term to commence at the expiration of the original term of imprisonment of the prisoner.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.


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