Chapter 359

2012 – S 3064

Enacted 06/21/12

 

A N A C T

RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY - PERMANENT JOINT COMMITTEE ON NAMING ALL NEW BUILDINGS, BRIDGES, EDIFICES AND OTHER STATE

CONSTRUCTIONS

          

     Introduced By: Senators Perry, and Sosnowski

     Date Introduced: June 11, 2012

 

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

 

     SECTION 1. Legislative findings.- The general assembly finds and declares that:

     (1) Roberta Richman, Assistant Director of Rehabilitative Services for the Rhode Island

department of corrections, oversees community corrections including probation, parole, and home

confinement, education and vocational training, health services, substance abuse treatment and

many specialized counseling programs. She also supervises inmate reentry activities designed to

bridge the gap between institutional services and community corrections.

     (2) Ms. Richman began her career in RIDOC in 1979 as an Arts program coordinator.

She became the administrator of educational services in 1982, the director of prison industries in

1986 and in 1991 was appointed warden of the women's facilities. During the ten years of her

tenure as warden, she introduced many innovative programs for female offenders.

     (3) As assistant director of rehabilitative services, Ms. Richman has focused attention on

prisoner reentry, the building of a continuum of care for offenders that begins immediately upon

entry into the criminal justice system and is intended to prepare the offender, his/her family and

the community, for successful release from prison. She believes that corrections alone cannot do

all that is needed to help prisoners rebuild their lives and has built partnerships with many

community agencies and public safety organizations in our cities and towns who now work

actively with the DOC on prisoner reentry initiatives.

 

     SECTION 2. Chapter 22-7.4 of the General Laws entitled "Permanent Joint Committee

on Naming All New Buildings, Bridges, Edifices and Other State Constructions" is hereby

amended by adding thereto the following section:

 

     22-7.4-116. Roberta Richman Way. -- The unnamed street located in the city of

Cranston, Rhode Island on the easterly side of Howard Avenue and extending to West Road and

located adjacent to Margaret Walsh Park shall herein after be named and known as "Roberta

Richman Way."

 

     SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.

     

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