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« Group pushes for end to mandatory drug sentences | Today | Did Rudy G. make a deal before backing the Sox? » October 25, 2007Craig Price disciplined for incidents in Fla. prisonCraig C. Price, who was first locked up at age 15 for four Warwick murders in the 1980s, has been disciplined for two May incidents in a Florida prison in which he was accused of using a homemade weapon to assault another inmate. Price, who was moved to the Florida prison after requesting an out-of-state transfer, has had 50 days of "good time'' -- time that could be lopped off his prison time -- taken away as a result, according to Tracey Poole, spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Department of Corrections. By law, inmates can accrue days of good time each month for good behavior or participation in certain programs. Loss of good time is calculated using a formula, Poole said. The incidents happened on May 21 and 22, Poole said. The other inmate was not seriously injured. Price may be in Florida but he came under Rhode Island corrections rules in determining what his discipline would be. Poole said Rhode Island has been told that Florida authorities are not at this time pressing charges. Price is now 32. In 1987, at age 13, he stabbed to death his Warwick neighbor, Rebecca Spencer. That crime was unsolved two years later when he killed Joan Heaton and her daughters, Jennifer and Melissa.
Two weeks later, the police arrested Price. He admitted to the killings and was sentenced to juvenile detention until his 21st birthday, the harshest penalty allowed at the time. But the state investigated ways to keep Price locked up. After screaming at a correctional officer in 1993, he was found guilty of making threats. The state also charged him with criminal contempt for refusing to take a court-ordered psychiatric exam. Those charges, and three fights in prison, have pushed his projected release date into 2022. Extra: Read the Journal's 2004 in-depth series about Craig C. Price. Posted by Mike McKinney Commentsnancy | April 15, 2008 4:35 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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Oct 2005 - March 2006
Oh My God! I moved out of Rhode Island to try and forget about Craig Price. He murdered my best friend Becky Spencer. I left RI in 1995. I just found out today he is in Florida!!!!! God help us if he every breaks out.
That is about all I can say without being censored. It sure is funny that a prisoner can ask for an out of state transfer, lik3 it is a vacation. His victims don't have any choice about where they are, he made that for them. He should have stayed in Rhode Island in prison there.
I can only hope that by 2022 I am not living in Florida, or he does something wrong in prison to add to his sentence. The fact that he is still in prison should tell people how dangerous he is. If he is set free, he will kill again.