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Washington Supreme Court Upholds Discriminatory Earned Time Policy
Loaded on June 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1996, page 11
The Washington state supreme court has upheld a practice by county jails awarding lesser amounts of earned time to pretrial detainees, usually too poor to afford bail, who are later convicted. Pursuant to RCW 9.94A.150(l) the DOC, which holds convicted felons, and county jails, which hold misdemeanants and pretrial detainees …
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