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Committee weighs making unauthorized transfer to juvenile training school a crime after DCYF request
Summary
Senate Judiciary took testimony April 3 on Senate Bill 619, a measure to criminalize unauthorized transfers of items into or out of the Rhode Island Training School, the state’s secure juvenile facility.
Senate Judiciary took testimony April 3 on Senate Bill 619, a bill introduced at DCYF’s request that would make it a criminal offense to convey unauthorized articles into or out of the Rhode Island Training School, the state’s secure juvenile facility.
Lerone Myrick, executive director of the Division of Youth Development (the agency name used in testimony), told the committee the training school is a secure, 96‑bed facility with rehabilitative programs and that current statutes that criminalize bringing contraband into adult correctional facilities do not explicitly cover the juvenile…
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