Every officer who shall refuse or neglect, for six (6) hours, to deliver a true copy of the warrant or process, by which he or she detains any prisoner, to any person who shall demand such copy and tender the fees therefor, shall forfeit and pay to the prisoner the sum of one hundred dollars ($100).
R.I. Gen. Laws § 10-9-13
Failure of officer to deliver copy of process by which prisoner held
C.P.A. 1905, § 672; G.L. 1909, ch. 305, § 21; G.L. 1923, ch. 356, § 21; G.L. 1938, ch. 584, § 21; G.L. 1956, § 10-9-13.
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