City & County Jails in Rhode Island
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Clicking on any of the Rhode Island Counties or Cities below will direct you to a list of all the City Jails, County Jails and Juvenile Detention Centers in that specific County.
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Rhode Island jails and state prisons
Rhode Island has five counties and no county jails. Providence, Kent, Washington, Bristol, and Newport do not run lockups. A person arrested in Woonsocket, Newport, or Westerly ends up at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston. The Department of Corrections runs the whole adult system. City police departments have holding rooms. They are not jails.
The Intake Service Center is the building that works like a jail. It holds people before trial and people waiting on a classification. In fiscal 2025 its average population was 856. Medium Security, the John J. Moran facility, averaged 812. Maximum averaged 308. Minimum averaged 145. High Security averaged 83. The women’s facility, Gloria McDonald, averaged 132. The institutional total that year was 2,337, awaiting trial and sentenced together. A federal hold can also land at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, which is private and not part of the state system.
Jails in Rhode Island are not a county search in the usual sense. Search the county of the arrest anyway. The adult listing is the Intake Service Center, or the sentenced facility the department has moved the person to. There is no sheriff’s jail to call.
How many county jails are there in Rhode Island?
None. The state took the jail function decades ago. A family looking for a county jail is looking for the Cranston campus. Intake is the first stop. A sentenced person can be moved to medium, maximum, minimum, high security, or the women’s facility without leaving the city.
How many juvenile detention centers are there in Rhode Island?
One. The Rhode Island Training School, also in Cranston, is the secure youth facility. The Department of Children, Youth and Families runs it, not the Department of Corrections. It holds youth waiting on a hearing and youth who have been committed. There is no county juvenile hall. Search the county of the arrest. The youth listing is the Training School.
What the first days at the Intake Service Center are like
The first day is a police station, then a ride to Cranston. Booking is identity, prints, a medical screen, a search, clothes bagged, one call if the phones are up. The person has not been convicted. There is no phone in the cell, and no way to know if a shift, a car on a side street, or the kids are covered. Glasses stay in property until someone signs for them. Providence and Newport look the same once the person is inside.
The hard part is the ordinary part. The uniform does not fit. The bunk is thin, and the next bed is awake. Meals are plain and on a clock. Mail is slow. A visit is a drive to Cranston that may be canceled. Withdrawal from alcohol, opioids, or methamphetamine can start before arraignment, and the night is when that gets loud. Officers who apply the rules the same way to everyone run a quieter unit. Uneven rules are how contraband moves. Intake can separate by risk. A sentenced facility is a later move, not a choice the family makes.
Tablets, video visits, and deposits take some of the isolation out. A message home does not fix the bed or the case, and the account can be shut off. The facility page on this site lists the phone, the vendor, and the way to send money for the Adult Correctional Institutions.