In Re: Nem, 99-4546 (2002)

DECISION

This matter is before the Court on a miscellaneous petition filed by the Rhode Island Department of Mental Health, Retardation and Hospitals ("MHRH"), and supported by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, to transfer Pheakiny Nem from the Forensic Unit of the Eleanor Slater Hospital, where he has been receiving specialized mental health services as a psychiatric inpatient, back to the Adult Correctional Institutions ("ACI"), where he was incarcerated previously pending trial. Defendant Nem has entered a plea of nolo contendere to a charge of manslaughter in connection with his…