Rhode Island § 11-25-8 § 11-25-8. Conveyance to prisoner of instruments for escape.

Rhode Island Statutes

§ 11-25-8 — § 11-25-8. Conveyance to prisoner of instruments for escape.

Rhode Island § 11-25-8

Title 11Criminal Offenses

Ch. 11-25Jails and Prisons

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R.I. Gen. Laws § 11-25-8 (2026).

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§ 11-25-8. Conveyance to prisoner of instruments for escape.
Every person who shall convey to any prisoner confined upon any criminal charge or
            upon conviction in any prison, jail, lock-up, police station, or other place of detention,
            without the knowledge of the warden, jailer, or officer in charge of the prison, jail,
            lock-up, police station, or place of detention, any disguise, instrument, tool, weapon,
            or other thing which is adapted or useful to aid a prisoner in making his or her escape,
            shall if any prisoner escapes by means of a disguise, instrument, tool, weapon, or
            other thing so conveyed, be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten 

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§ 11-25-8. Conveyance to prisoner of instruments for escape.

Every person who shall convey to any prisoner confined upon any criminal charge or upon conviction in any prison, jail, lock-up, police station, or other place of detention, without the knowledge of the warden, jailer, or officer in charge of the prison, jail, lock-up, police station, or place of detention, any disguise, instrument, tool, weapon, or other thing which is adapted or useful to aid a prisoner in making his or her escape, shall if any prisoner escapes by means of a disguise, instrument, tool, weapon, or other thing so conveyed, be punished by imprisonment for not more than ten (10) years, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. If there is no escape by means of the disguise, instrument, tool, weapon, or other thing so conveyed, then the person so conveying it shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five (5) years, or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both.

Legislative History

G.L. 1896, ch. 276, § 10; G.L. 1909, ch. 342, § 10; P.L. 1915, ch. 1258, § 5; P.L. 1920, ch. 1857, § 1; G.L. 1923, ch. 394, § 10; G.L. 1938, ch. 605, § 10; G.L. 1956, § 11-25-8.