Whenever, in any general or special law, reference is, or shall be, made to the state prison, the men’s reformatory, the reformatory for women, the Providence County jail, or the jail or jails in the several counties, that reference shall mean, and be construed to mean, the adult correctional institutions of the state.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-56-14.1
Statutory references to former institutions
P.L. 1976, ch. 290, § 1.
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