Newly arriving patients are not permitted family visits, telephone calls and other privileges that they had on death row, special master Matthew Lopes said in a progress report Tuesday. The privileges are gradually restored as incentives while the patients undergo treatment.
Special master Matthew Lopes says in his report this week that newly arriving patients are not permitted family visits, telephone calls and other privileges. The privileges are gradually restored as incentives while the patients undergo treatment.
The governor has taken particular aim at court-appointed monitor over inmate health care, Matthew Lopes. The state has paid Lopes' Rhode Island law firm, Pannone Lopes and Devereaux LLC, and prison experts he has hired more than $48 million since 1997, the earliest year for which reliable records ca