Terms Used In Rhode Island General Laws > Chapter 13-8.1 - Medical and Geriatric Parole

• Aging prisoner: means an individual who is sixty-five (65) years of age or older and suffers from functional impairment, infirmity, or illness. See Rhode Island General Laws 13-8.1-3
• Cognitively incapacitated: means suffering from a cognitive condition, such as dementia, that greatly impairs activities that are necessary for independence such as feeding, toileting, dressing, and bathing and renders their incarceration non-punitive and non-rehabilitative. See Rhode Island General Laws 13-8.1-3
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• in writing: include printing, engraving, lithographing, and photo-lithographing, and all other representations of words in letters of the usual form. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-16
• person: may be construed to extend to and include co-partnerships and bodies corporate and politic. See Rhode Island General Laws 43-3-6
• Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
• Severely ill: means suffering from a significant and permanent or chronic physical and/or mental condition that: (1) Requires extensive medical and/or psychiatric treatment with little to no possibility of recovery; and (2) Significantly impairs rehabilitation from further incarceration. See Rhode Island General Laws 13-8.1-3
• Terminally ill: means suffering from a condition caused by injury (except self-inflicted injury), disease, or illness which, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, is a life-limiting diagnosis that will lead to profound functional, cognitive and/or physical decline, and likely will result in death within eighteen (18) months. See Rhode Island General Laws 13-8.1-3