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WA DOC Wants to Open New Prison, Close Old Ones
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1994, page 10
The Washington DOC received a budget increase of 30 percent last year. As part of the two percent budget cutback affecting all state agencies the DOC has offered plans which would require the closure of two small prisons and delay the opening of the large Airway Heights prison near Spokane. …
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