RI detention center manager facing ouster
April 20, 2009
Central Falls, RI -- The bitter breakup of the governing board of the troubled Wyatt Detention Facility and its management company may be entering it final stages, with the board chairman saying the manager may be fired Monday night and the manager's lawyer saying his client is poised to sue the board.
Central Falls Detention Facility Board Chairman Daniel F. Cooney said Friday the board has scheduled a 6 p.m. meeting Monday to hear how Avcorr Management LLC and its executive director Anthony Ventetuolo Jr. plan to replace the revenue the prison lost when the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency removed its detainees from the 642-bed facility in January. Wyatt primarily houses detainees of the U.S. Marshal's Service.
On April 8, the board gave Ventetuolo 10 days to come up with a plan to replace the detainees, and the $100,000 a week the federal government paid the prison to house them. Cooney declined to predict what the board would do at the meeting, saying he wanted to hear from Ventetuolo. But he added if there is no adequate plan, Avcorr and Ventetuolo may have to go.
The Providence Journal
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