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Food Survey Reveals Washington State Prisoners’ Concerns and Complaints
Loaded on Dec. 10, 2019
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2019, page 54
Filed under:
Food.
Location:
Washington.
by Matt Clarke
It might be classified as “better late than never,” but a March 2019 report on a food survey of prisoners at the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP), undertaken by the state’s Office of the Corrections Ombuds, cast light on the kinds of problems with prison food …
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