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December 6, 2006

Derderian moved into prison's intake center

Station nightclub co-owner Michael Derderian has been removed from a minimum-security facility at the Adult Correctional Institutions and placed in the intake center, where officials can keep a closer eye on him, according to the state's top corrections official.

Derderian was moved last night because he was exhibiting behaviors that showed he was having difficulty adjusting to confinement, said A.T. Wall II, director of the Department of Corrections.

On Monday, Derderian had been moved to the intake center for the same reason, but was returned to minimum security on Tuesday. Wall declined to discuss what behavior prompted the move.

Derderian's difficulties started after he was found guilty in a disciplinary hearing on Friday of violating prison rules and was ordered removed from his work-release assignment at a Warwick auto body shop.

A prison spokesman said Derderian was found guilty of receiving chicken soup from an undisclosed family member while at work, violating rules prohibiting work-release inmates from having food other than what is given to them by the prison.

He also was found guilty of having an unauthorized visit from a friend and of lying to investigators looking into those allegations. As an example, he told investigators the friend was actually a customer at Allendale Auto Body and Sales, where Derderian was doing bookkeeping.

Derderian has appealed his guilty findings to the warden of the minimum-security unit. His punishment, which is on hold pending his appeal, would be to spend 15 days in medium security at the ACI.

Derderian, 45, was sentenced in September to four years in prison after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter charges after the Feb. 20, 2003, fire at his West Warwick nightclub, which killed 100 people.

-- Journal staff writer Paul Edward Parker

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