R.I. Gen. Laws § 42-56-9: Authority of department broadly construed.

The omission in this chapter of a citation of any general law or public law now in force that makes it mandatory upon or permissive for any department, division, or other agency of the state to perform certain functions that by this act are assigned or transferred to the department of corrections shall not (unless otherwise clearly intended) suspend or annul the right of the department of corrections to carry out those functions.