PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Just over 15,000 people make up Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello’s legislative district, most of them suburban neighbors of the Democrat in his hometown of Cranston. But a disproportionate number are inmates sent from out of town to the state’s main prison complex.
In Connecticut, thousands of inmates are also counted as constituents of state Sen.
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