Rhode Island General Laws Title 13. Criminals--Correctional Institutions § 13-6-4. Application for administration of prisoner's estate

Whenever any person shall be imprisoned in the adult correctional institutions for life or for a term of seven (7) years or more, any creditor of that person may apply to the probate court of the city or town in which the prisoner last lived and was domiciled in this state, or in which he or she shall have any estate, for letters of administration to be granted on the prisoner's estate to the prisoner's next of kin or to any disinterested person, during the imprisonment.