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Rhode Island State Prisons and Juvenile Facilities

In the smallest state, nearly everyone in adult custody lives on a single campus. The Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC), formed in 1972, runs the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI) at the Pastore Government Center in Cranston, along with probation and parole. Rhode Island is one of six states with a unified corrections system: there are no county jails, so the same department holds people who have just been arrested and are awaiting trial as well as people serving prison sentences.

During the 2025 fiscal year (July 2024 through June 2025), the ACI held an average of 2,337 people. On June 30, 2025, 1,540 were sentenced and 857 were awaiting trial. Women made up only a small share, about 130 on an average day. The population has fallen nearly 40% since its 2008 peak, and planners expect it to grow modestly over the next decade while staying below the prison’s capacity.

The ACI facilities

Six housing facilities make up the ACI, all in Cranston:

Anthony P. Travisono Intake Service Center: the maximum-security jail for men, holding about 850 people on an average day
Maximum Security: the oldest building still in use, opened in 1878
High Security Center: a small unit of about 96 beds for the men considered most dangerous or hardest to manage
John J. Moran Medium Security Facility: the largest prison for sentenced men, opened in 1992
Minimum Security: for men nearing release or eligible for work programs
Gloria McDonald Women’s Facility: houses all women, both awaiting trial and sentenced

The Donald Price Medium Security Facility closed in 2011, and the Dorothea Dix and Bernadette buildings for women closed around the same time, when women were consolidated into the McDonald facility.

What happens after an arrest or sentencing?

Men who are held on bail or newly sentenced go first to the Intake Service Center. It takes in about 1,300 commitments a month, and pretrial detainees stay about 25 days on average. Sentenced men stay there until RIDOC’s classification staff decide which facility fits their security level, then they move across the campus. Women are booked and housed at the McDonald facility.

Visits work through a visitors’ list. A sentenced person may put up to nine people on it, and each one must clear state and national background checks. Two more names can be added for money deposits only. Visitors need a driver’s license, military ID or state-issued ID card. Schedules are set by each warden and change often, so check RIDOC’s facility pages or its Facebook page before each trip.

How to find an inmate in Rhode Island

RIDOC’s Inmate Search opens with a disclaimer you must accept before searching. It shows people currently held at the ACI, including those awaiting trial. Staff will not confirm case details by phone, but the Records & ID office can be reached at (401) 462-3900 and the bail office at (401) 462-2261.

No death penalty since 1852

Rhode Island abolished capital punishment on February 11, 1852, one of the first states to do so. A narrow death penalty for murder by someone already serving life was added in 1872 but never used, and lawmakers removed it in 1984. The last person executed was John Gordon, an Irish immigrant hanged on February 14, 1845, for a murder many came to believe he did not commit. Governor Lincoln Chafee pardoned him in 2011.

Recent changes at the ACI

Director Wayne Salisbury Jr., who capped disciplinary confinement at 30 days in 2023 over objections from the officers’ union, left in June 2026 to work on reforming New York City’s Rikers Island. Governor Dan McKee named longtime RIDOC official Lynne Corry interim director. Deaths in custody have drawn scrutiny, with five in 2024 and four in 2025, and officials report more synthetic cannabis (K2) being smuggled in on paper.

Rhode Island juvenile facilities

Youth cases are handled by the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF) through its Division of Youth Development. Because there are no county juvenile centers, DCYF runs the state’s only secure youth facility, the Thomas C. Slater Training School for Youth, usually called the Rhode Island Training School, at 57 Power Road in Cranston. It holds both boys and girls, whether they are detained while their Family Court case is pending or sentenced there. The school has room for 96 but averaged about 40 young people in 2025–26. Youth attend a full school day with certified teachers. Juvenile records are confidential, so families should contact DCYF at (401) 528-3500 or the youth’s probation officer.

To search for an inmate or juvenile, or to learn how to visit, call, write or send money to someone in the Rhode Island Department of Corrections or Department of Children, Youth & Families, choose a facility from the list below.