Book Review: Public Records Act Manual for the State of Washington by Sam Rutherford by Derek Gronquist reviewed by Sam Rutherford The Public Records Act Manual for the State of Washington (2nd Ed. 2020), by Derek Gronquist, is a must have compendium for anyone, from the novice record requestor to …
News in Brief by Alabama: Former state Department of Corrections (DOC) guard Henry Guice, Jr., 46, was sentenced to 75 months in federal prison on September 9, 2024, for his role in a drug smuggling conspiracy at Staton Correctional Facility. The Birmingham News reported that a fellow guard was inspecting …
Washington Appellate Court Reverses Parole Revocation Based on Hearsay by On April 2, 2024, the Washington Court of Appeals, Division II, reversed a decision by the state’s Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) that relied only on hearsay evidence to sustain a criminal charge underlying a parole violation. In 2020, ISRB …
Court Strikes Washington Statute to Regulate GEO Group’s Notorious ICE Lockup by The Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC) in Tacoma, Washington, owned by private prison giant The GEO Group, Inc., is the sole detention facility in the state of Washington for federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In 2023, state …
Estate of Kevin Wiley v. City of Issaquah, WA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2024 FULL AND FINAL RELEASE THIS IS A COMPLETE RELEASE READ IT BEFORE SIGNING IN CONSIDERATION for the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000.00), I, Richelle Marie Dickey, as the Personal Representative of the Estate of Kevin Wiley …
News in Brief by Arizona: State prisoner Brigido Montoya made the briefest of escapes from the State Prison Complex in Eyman on August 10, 2024, before he was recaptured 48 minutes later by Florence Police, the Florence Reminder & Blade-Tribune reported. The state Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (DCRR) …
Rural Washington County Shutters Its Jail by Under Sheriff Bob Songer and his administrator for the Klickitat County Jail (KCJ), Loren Culp, conditions at the rural southwestern Washington lockup have deteriorated so far that County Commissioners voted to close it on March 29, 2024. The fate of two Native Americans …
Estate of Shelly Monahan v. Clark County, WA, Complaint, Wrongul Death-Denial Medical Care, 2024 Case 3:24-cv-05392-TMC Document 29 Filed 09/19/24 Page 1 of 40 1 The Honorable Tiffany M. Cartwright 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 …
Estate of David McGrath v. City Of Issaquah, WA, Settlement, Wrongful Death, 2024 FULL AND FINAL RELEASE THIS IS A COMPLETE RELEASE READ IT BEFORE SIGNING IN CONSIDERATION for the sum of two million, five-hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000.00), Linda McGrath, as the Personal representative of the Estate of David McGrath; …
News in Brief by Alabama: Mobile Metro Jail guard Robert Aaron Small was fired and arrested for assault on June 27, 2024, one day after he allegedly used excessive force against an unnamed detainee. WKRG in Mobile said that the guard had worked at the lockup since 2019. Mobile County …
Washington Prison Trade Training Program Boosts Employment Income Upon Release by When Brittany Wright, 30, got out of a Washington prison in June 2023, she was confident that it would be easier than her last release 10 years earlier. Back then, she had found it almost impossible to find a …
Bruce Johnson 1950–2024 by Paul Wright by Paul Wright On August 20, 2024, the free speech rights of all Americans suffered a devastating loss. Bruce Johnson, 74, was a long-time partner at the Seattle law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine. He spent his entire, nearly half century career as a …
Washington Court of Appeals: PLRA Dismissal of Prisoner’s Federal Suit Is Not Res Judicata Barring State Tort Claims by On March 19, 2024, the Court of Appeals of Washington, Division II, held that a state prisoner’s tort claims are not barred in state court even if federal claims arising from …
Washington Parole Board Failed to Meaningfully Apply Presumption of Release for Prisoner Sentenced to LWOP as Juvenile by On April 11, 2024, the Washington Court of Appeals refused to reconsider an earlier finding that the state’s Indeterminate Sentence Review Board (ISRB) failed to meaningfully apply the statutory presumption that prisoners …
Letter to Governor Inslee about Green Hill September 10, 2024 Dear Governor Inslee, As formerly incarcerated persons who have professional, as well as deep personal knowledge of the process of rehabilitation, we ask that you respect our lived expertise and release youth in our state’s Juvenile Rehabilitation (JR) facilities who …
News in Brief by Alabama: On June 24, 2024, Walker County Sheriff Nick Smith told the Birmingham News that county jail guard Tony Dewayne Jackson, 29, had been arrested for smuggling “non-­drug” contraband into the lockup. Jackson was no longer working at the jail, but Smith didn’t say how or …
Criminalizing Poverty Drives Mass Incarceration in Kentucky, Washington by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney As a teen in the South, I often heard it said: “Being poor ain’t no sin.” But apparently it has become illegal. According to a report from the Vera Institute of Justice, Kentucky’s courts charge myriad …
1,200 Washington Prisoners Lose Laptops After One Shows Up on eBay by By March 2, 2024, the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) had collected laptops from some 1,200 state prisoners who had been issued them for course work in college programming—throwing a huge monkey wrench into their plans to work …
Washington Prisoner’s Sentence Vacated After Attorney Calls and Visits Were Recorded by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney On January 23, 2024, the Washington Court of Appeals sent the case of a state prisoner back to the trial court that convicted him of second-­degree domestic violence rape and assault, finding the …
Securus Wipes Out Months of Washington Prisoners’ Writing—Again by Writers are intimately familiar with the effort it takes to organize ideas and direct them through a keyboard into text. Most have the comfort of knowing their draft work waits for them to take the next step. But incarcerated writers do …
