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As the RI ACLU prepares to hold a news conference today regarding the Wyatt Detention Center and the death of Jason Ng, the Boston Globe reports on how some other prisons, including the nearby Bristol County Jail, have enhanced their revenue by jailing...
There's not uncommonly a link between a down economy and a rise in violent crime, so the streetworkers based at the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence in Providence have their work cut out for them -- more so than usual. Appropriately...
The New York Times continues its strong Rhode Island-based reporting on immigration, using a lengthy front-pager today to highlight the meager returns generated by the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility for its host community of Central Falls, and how...
The Rhode Island Family Life Center is an important voice in the local cause of criminal-justice reform, so this is troubling news: Providence, RI, December 15, 2008-- As the growing impact of Bernie Madoff's outrageous scheme unfolds nationwide,...
Ariel returns to the pages of the Phoenix with a look at Stronger than Their Walls , the Family Life Center's new documentary about the need for probation reform and the word on some upcoming screenings. A precondition for state inmates' release...
[image from thebrothersbulger.com] During Colonel Brendan Doherty's appearance this morning on Newsmakers, I was surprised when he responded to a question about Louis "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, the reputed head of organized crime in Rhode...
During the bygone heyday of Raymond L.S. Patriarca, some inferiority complex-plagued Rhode Islanders took solace in how the New England Mob was headquartered out of a storefront on Atwells Avenue. Now, although LCN has continued its longstanding fade...
Remembered, too : Now it will be up to the state medical examiner to positively identify what’s left of Joe Onions, who earned his nickname because he used to make the ladies cry.
An economically telling detail in the ProJo's coverage of the big OC bust earlier this week: In addition, longtime mob enforcer Gerald M. “Gerry” Tillinghast, 62, was accused of resuming his storied criminal career upon his release from prison last...
Beth made a post at the Dose yesterday about an anti-drug war event at Brown: The Brown University chapter of Students for a Sensible Drug Policy ( SSDP ) sponsored a lecture last night featuring Jeffrey A. Miron , libertarian economist and Director of...
Secretary of State Ralph Mollis says he supports Clean Elections' legislation as a way of making elections in Rhode Island more competititve, and he thinks campaign-finance reform could become law once the state moves past its ongoing budget woes...
In separate segments, Colonel Brendan Doherty of the Rhode Island State Police and Dennis Grilli, executive director of AFSCME's Council 94 , are the guests this week on WPRI/WNAC-TV's Newsmakers . Tim White fills in as host for the vacationing...
B.J. Finnell, news director at WLNE-TV, got back to me a short time ago, and he offered this statement about the station's mistaken report yesterday by reporter Malini Basu : As a postscript to the story, ABC 6 has this correction, and apology. Earlier...
Yesterday, as the story was breaking after an attempted bank robbery on Broad Street in South Providence, WLNE-TV (Channel 6) mistakenly reported on its mid-day newscast that a Providence police officer had been shot. The station then mistakenly reported...
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