§ 11-25-20. Habeas corpus for production of prisoner.
Whenever a writ of habeas corpus shall issue from either the supreme or superior court
for the production and appearance before it of a prisoner confined in the adult correctional
institutions, the writ shall be delivered to the division of sheriffs. Whenever the
writ is issued from any other court, it shall be delivered to the division of sheriffs
or to any town sergeant or chief of police or police constable, who shall duly present
it to the director of corrections of the institutions. The director of corrections
shall upon receipt of the writ deliver the prisoner to the custody of the officer.
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§ 11-25-20. Habeas corpus for production of prisoner.
Whenever a writ of habeas corpus shall issue from either the supreme or superior court
for the production and appearance before it of a prisoner confined in the adult correctional
institutions, the writ shall be delivered to the division of sheriffs. Whenever the
writ is issued from any other court, it shall be delivered to the division of sheriffs
or to any town sergeant or chief of police or police constable, who shall duly present
it to the director of corrections of the institutions. The director of corrections
shall upon receipt of the writ deliver the prisoner to the custody of the officer.
The officer shall take and receive the prisoner into his or her custody, shall duly
present the prisoner before the court pursuant to the command of the writ, and shall
keep and hold the prisoner until by order of the court he or she shall be recommitted
to the institutions or otherwise disposed of. Upon the delivery of the custody of
the prisoner by the director of corrections to the officer, the director of corrections
shall endorse the delivery upon the writ, and the officer shall receipt on the books
of the institutions for custody. The officer, upon the production of the prisoner
in court, shall further endorse that fact on the writ and deliver it to the clerk
or (if there is no clerk) the presiding justice; but shall, as an officer of the court,
maintain safe custody of the prisoner until he or she is, by further order, recommitted
or discharged.