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The Division of Institutions & Operations includes the Departmentâ€™s correctional facilities [collectively known as the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI)], Security Office, Special Investigations Unit (SIU), Correctional Emergency Response Team (CERT), Correctional Industries, Facilities and Maintenance Unit, and Food Service.

Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI)

The primary responsibility of the Division of Institutions & Operations is the coordinated management of eight (8) correctional facilities, including two (2) jails (one for male offenders and one for female offenders), all located on the John O. Pastore Government Center in Cranston, Rhode Island.

Facilities for men include High, Maximum, Medium (John J. Moran and Donald Price) and Minimum Securities, and the Intake Service Center. The mens Minimum Security includes a Work Release Program.

There are two facilities for women under a single administration: one for awaiting trial and medium security inmates (Gloria DiSandro McDonald building), the other for women classified to minimum security and work release (Dorothea Dix building).

The division is overseen by an Assistant Director, and the facilities are managed by Wardens, Deputy Wardens, and supervisory correctional staff (Captains and Lieutenants). The facilities are staffed by line correctional officers, medical personnel, food service staff, and non-uniformed program staff (counselors, teachers, maintenance workers, industry shop supervisors and instructors).

Medical and religious services are offered in all facilities. Educational opportunities such as General Equivalent Development (GED), Adult Basic Education (ABE), English as a Second Language (ESL), Special Education, creative writing, art classes, and some college courses, are available to various degrees in all facilities. In addition, there are residential and educational drug programs available to the inmate population.

Domestic violence, anger management, alternatives to violence workshops, parenting, avocational and vocational, as well as life skill programs, are available throughout the facilities. In addition, the Womenâ€™s Facilities offer gender-specific programs to meet the unique needs of the female offender population.

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Edited by wjrobert67 (02/16/06 10:53 AM)