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Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-13 > Chapter-13-8 > 13-8-22SECTION 13-8-22
§ 13-8-22 Manner of obtaining informationby parole board. – The parole board, in the discharge of its duties under this chapter, shall notbe required to receive or consider any petition, and it may secure theinformation upon which it exercises its authority, or upon which it makes itsfindings in any case, in any manner and by any means that it may consider mostfitting to carry out the purposes of this chapter; provided, it shall be theduty of the clerks of courts, the sheriffs and their deputies, the policeofficers of cities and towns, the probation officers, the officers of the adultcorrectional institutions, and every person having charge of any other placewhere prisoners are confined or detained, to furnish to the board and to anymember of the board, whenever requested by the board or by any member of it,any and all information they may have relating to the character and history ofany prisoner whose sentence is placed under the control of the board by thischapter. In the case of prisoners transferred to federal institutions under theprovisions of § 13-12-1, the board may, in its discretion, arrange toobtain information concerning those prisoners from the appropriate officials ofthe United States Bureau of Prisons. That information shall include, but not belimited to, testimony of the prisoner being considered for parole, and officialrecords and reports, including recommendations concerning the prisoners. Theboard is authorized to request of the contracting authority the inclusion ofprovisions for obtaining that information in contracts made pursuant to §13-12-1.
