LETTER: Re: ACI Lockdowns to Allow “Officers Week” Festivities

Document Date: September 10, 2021

This is a letter from the ACLU of RI and the RI Center for Justice to RIDOC Director Patricia Coyne-Fague over plans for a multi-day lockdown of ACI prisoners so that correctional officers can partake in “National Correctional Officers’ Week” events, including a cookout with golf and volleyball elsewhere in Cranston and a “Family Night” tour of ACI cellblocks.

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The letter points out that one of the lockdowns is to accommodate a day-long cookout on Mulligan’s Island where COs and their families will enjoy golf, volleyball and other activities. The food for the cookout has typically been prepared by RIDOC inmates.