Good Time Petition Dismissed As Moot by The Court of Appeals of the State of Washington has dismissed as moot a petition by a former prisoner challenging the Washington Department of Corrections’ (DOC) method for calculating his good time. Steven Salmon served an Oregon sentence and a portion of a …
Washington Supreme Court Permits Sentence In Excess of Statutory Maximum; Legislature Intervenes with Statutory Amendment by The Washington Supreme Court has held that a judgment and sentence containing a total prison term and community supervision term that exceed the statutory maximum sentence is valid, so long as the trial court …
Washington Jail’s Good Time Certification Based on Time in Jail, Not Court’s Award of Time Served by In dismissing a personal restraint petition, Division One of the Washington State Court of Appeals discussed the law involving the certification and award of good time by a county jail to the Department …
Washington Prisoner’s Privacy Rights Not Violated by Recording Jail Phone Calls by Division One of the Washington State Court of Appeals has held that recording a prisoner’s jail telephone conversations does not violate privacy interests under the Washington Constitution, article 1, section 7. Before the Court was the appeal of …
Washington State Community Custody Term Must Be Served in Community by Division Two of the Washington State Court of Appeals has held that a sex offender who served an excessive sentence is not entitled to credit for the illegal time served toward his community custody term. Cliff Alan Jones pled …
GPS Used to Track Sex Offenders in Washington State by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke Like firefighters and airline pilots, the ten Washington Department of Corrections community correction officers (CCOs) assigned to monitor high-risk sex offenders in King County via Global Positioning System (GPS) hope for a really boring day …
$2.2 Million Settlement: Murder by Washington State Community Service Releasee by On October 17, 2008, the State of Washington settled a lawsuit brought by the survivors of a man killed by a man on community supervision for $2.2 million. Andrew J. Brown, a state prisoner in Washington State, was convicted …
Failure to Register as Sex Offender Convictions Reversed in Washington by A Washington Court of Appeals reversed and vacated Kenneth Howe’s convictions for failure to register as a sex offender. The convictions were based on Howe's prior California convictions for lewd acts on a child and failure to register, which …
Out of State Detainer Does not Prevent Civil Commitment of Sex Offender Scheduled for Release by In an opinion filed June 23, 2009, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a lower court's conclusion to allow the civil commitment of a prisoner in Washington who was about to be released to a detainer …
Request for "Information" is Not Subject to Washington Public Records Act by Request for "Information" is Not Subject to Washington Public Records Act In a published opinion filed June 22, 2009, a Washington appellate court affirmed a lower court's ruling regarding an alleged Public Records Act (PRA) request made by …
Wisecarver v King County Wa Dismissal Order Kccf Mrsa Infections 2008 Case 2:08-cv-00787-RAJ Document 101 Filed 11/23/09 Page 1 of 3 Case 2:08-cv-00787-RAJ Document 101 Filed 11/23/09 Page 2 of 3 Case 2:08-cv-00787-RAJ Document 101 Filed 11/23/09 Page 3 of 3
$1 Million Settlement in Washington DOC Staff Sexual Abuse Suit of Women Prisoners by On June 12, 2009, the Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) entered into a settlement agreement in a class-action lawsuit over staff sexual abuse of female prisoners which included $22,500 in attorney fees for future enforcement …
Coyote Ridge Environmental Assessment, US Green Building Council, 2009 Coyote Ridge Corrections Center The US Green Building Council has awarded 39 points to CRCC. CRCC has received the first LEED Gold Certification for a prison campus. October 30, 2009 OWNER INFORMATION Contact Name: David B. Jansen, P.E., LEED® AP Department …
Williams v Kitsap County, WA Declaration Wrongful Prosecution, False Imprisonment, 2009 Oct-20-09 CuttingEdgeTrain;ng Case10:29 3:08-cv-05430-RBL Document 150 Filed 10/22/2009 3606714180Page 1 of 20 llONORABLE RONALD FI LEIGHTON 2 3 4 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASIlTNGTOl\ AT TACOMA 7 9 10 v. 12 14 1$ DECLARA TlON OF …
$90,000 Settlement for Tasering Epileptic by Washington State’s City of Lakewood paid $90,000 to settle the claim of a man who was tasered and punched after having an epileptic seizure. The man, identified as Mr. Grider, had a history of epileptic seizures that he quickly recovered from. While at work, …
Problems at Washington’s Civil Commitment Center Continue by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On July 30, 2008, Paepaega Matautia, Jr., 39, a mail room guard at the Special Commitment Center (SCC) for sex offenders on McNeil Island in Washington state, was arrested on federal charges of attempting to possess and …
$4.7 Million Settlement for Brain Damage Caused by Washington Jail Negligence by Washington State’s Kitsap County Jail paid $4.7 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged its failure to properly care for a developmentally disabled man left him brain damaged from dehydration. William E. Trask, 44, was born developmentally disabled. …
Washington States Passes New Law for Automatic Restoration of Voting Rights by Eric Nygren Governor Christine Gregoire has signed into law a bill that reforms Washington’s convoluted system for restoring voting rights. The measure will restore the right to vote automatically to citizens who have come out of the criminal …
$2,000 Settlement in Vehicle Damage Claim by Washington State’s King County has paid $1,960.37 to settle the claim of PHH Arval Vehicle Management Services. On December 10, 2007, PHH’s driver was going through an intersection when a county-owned vehicle pulling a trailer, driven by Patti Porter, attempted to pass and …
$2,500 Settlement for Jail’s Failure to Treat Broken Hand by Washington State’s King County Jail has paid Edward D. Bland $2,500 to settle a claim that the Jail failed to treat his broken right hand. Upon booking on March 9, 2004, a jail nurse examined Bland’s hand, which was as …
