Providence man sentenced for leading fentanyl trafficking ring
A man from Providence was sentenced in Boston Federal Court for leading a drug trafficking organization operating in ...
R.I. man who delivered fentanyl resulting in woman’s fatal overdose sentenced to 40 years in prison
Walik Morrison, 44, was sentenced on Monday by Providence Superior Court Judge William E. Carnes to 50 years with 40 to serve ...
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2 sentenced to life in prison for pregnant woman’s murder
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Two Rhode Island men will spend the rest of their ... were sentenced to life in prison for murder, plus 10 more years for conspiracy. They were both found guilty ...
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Could RI inmates get conjugal visits? The history of 'social furloughs' and why they stopped.
Ramon Perez knows his bill allowing inmates conjugal visits inside the prison has zero chance of ... correctional philosophies, scores of Rhode Island inmates each year, sometimes hundreds ...
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Pandemic aid fraud scheme leads to lengthy prison sentences
(WJAR) — Four Florida men were each sentenced in federal court in Rhode Island Thursday to years in prison, in what the U.S. Attorney’s office calls “one of the largest schemes in the ...
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Protesters say ICE detentions highlight the plight of immigrants in Rhode Island
Local immigration advocates held a rally Tuesday in support of Fabian Schmidt, a German national and permanent U. S. resident ...
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Mass. attorney admits to smuggling synthetic marijuana into R.I. federal prison
Get Rhode Island News Alerts Sign up to get breaking ... used in treating people who are addicted to opioids – inside the prison. Surveillance video footage from the prison showed on Feb ...
Could RI inmates get conjugal visits? The history of 'social furloughs' and why they stopped.
Ramon Perez knows his bill allowing inmates conjugal visits inside the prison has zero chance of passing this year. But decades ago, when many states exercised more liberal correctional philosophies, ...