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WA Law Libraries Threatened; DOC Proposes Budget Cuts
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2001, page 8
On December 5, 2000, deputy DOC secretary Eldon Vail informed the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) executive staff and administrators of the DOC's 2001-03 biennium budget reduction package. The state of Washington has recently been subjected to conflicting ballot initiatives, which restrict state spending, eliminate car tabs as a significant ...
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