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Washington Pork Refuses to Be Trimmed: Guard Towers Stay
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1997, page 3
In the August and November, 1995, issues of PLN we reported the passage of House Bill (HB) 2010 and the DOC's 1996-97 budget by the Washington state legislature. Among HB 2010's provisions were instructions for the DOC to study the use of electrical perimeter fences to replace guard towers. In ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Staffing,
Employee Litigation,
Guard Unions.
Location:
Washington.
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