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Update on Washington Money Seizure Suit
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1996, page 19
In the August, 1996, issue of PLN we reported the history and then current status of Wright v. Riveland, the class action suit challenging the constitutionality of Washington statute RCW 72.09.480, which allows the DOC to seize 35% of all funds sent to prisoners. For more details refer to the ...
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