The Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) is a state agency of Rhode Island operating state prisons. It has its headquarters in Cranston.
The Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institute (ACI) consists of eight Prison Buildings located on the grounds of The Rhode Island Department of Corrections, six for males and two for females. The Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institute is located in Cranston. The following is a list of the state prison buildings (this does not include federal prisons or county jails located in Rhode Island):
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“I ... would rather be in dependance on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation upon earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those too who rather than submit to the right of legislating for us assumed by the British parliament, and which late experience has shewn they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole island in the ocean.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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