WA Class B Felonies Entitled to 1/3 Good Time Credits by The Washington State Supreme Court has held: (1) a former statute placing cap on early release good time credits at 15% rather than 33% of total sentence for those "convicted of a serious violent offense or a sex offense …
Prison Protesters Arrested in DC by In a reprise of the 1999 Seattle World Trade Organization protests, thousands of activists gathered in Washington DC on April 9-17 to oppose annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, the prison-industrial complex, and neoliberal economic policies. Estimates of the …
Washington Ends Prison Telemarketing by Paul Wright By Paul Wright On May 13, 1999, the Washington Department of Corrections ended its last remaining prison telemarketing program. As reported in the August, 1998, issue of PLN, prison telemarketing has had a controversial history in Washington prisons. In 1998 the Washington DOC …
PLN Sues to Uncover Telemarketing Closure by The accompanying story on the closure of the Washington Marketing Group (WMG) operation at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe, Washington, occured in May, 1999. Shortly after it occurred PLN editor Paul Wright filed a Public Disclosure Act (PDA) request with the Department …
WA Court Costs Can be Remitted by WA Court Costs Can Be Remitted Appeals, Division One, held that: (1) the State may be awarded costs under RCW 10.73.160 even if an indigent prisoner's appeal raises debatable issues; and (2) a defendant whose conviction has been affirmed may petition the sentencing …
WA State Human Rights Commission v. WA DOC, WA, Tort Claim and Complaint, Discrimination Case, 2000 .' . to. STANDARD 'tORT a,AIM FO~ :'.. ATI'AaiMENT A Pwsuam UI RCW 4.~ this 1iJml is pmvid.eIifDr ~ ~ wbt:a.~ a tart claim agaiDsE 1bc Swc of WashingraD. If filiDI a daim iuvolviDg …
Marriott Cancels Prison Protest Concert by Sodexho-Marriot is a huge transnational corporation mainly consisting of hotel and food service operations. Marriott Dining Services, a subsidiary of Sodhexo- Marriott, operates the American University Tavern on the Washington D.C. campus of AU. On February 15, 2000, a hip-hop concert was booked at …
Brown Ad-Seg Due Process Claim Remanded for Hearing by Ronald Young Brown Ad-Seg Due Process Claim Remanded For Hearing By Ronald Young The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit held that a prisoner who received ten months of administrative segregation during a housing reassignment hearing did not …
Restrained Washington Prisoner Exonerated in Assault on Guard by Terry A Kupers by Terry A. Kupers and Marybeth Dingledy Rodney Gitchel had been in 4-point restraints for two months inside the Special Offenders Center (S.O.C.) at the Monroe Correctional Complex in Washington when he struggled free of the restraints and …
Washington Jail Settles Exercise Suit by On October 12, 1999, the King County (Seattle) jail in Washington settled a class action suit concerning the amount of outdoor exercise provided to ultra high security (UHS) prisoners and detainees. In 1997 a class action suit was filed challenging the classification process and …
Miniken v. WA DOC, WA, FOIA Request, 2000 STATE OF WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES BUSINESS SERVICES P.O. Box 41107· Olympia, Washington 98504·1107 • (360) 586-6014 FAX (360) S86-6OO6 June 30, 2000 Mr. Donald Miniken, DOC #975666 c/o McNeil Island Corrections Center P.O. Box 881000 0-331-1 Steilacoom, …
Women in Prison: GAO Report by Julia Lutsky Reviewed by Julia Lutsky During the calendar years 1995 to 1998, approximately 31,400 women prisoners in the three largest U.S. jurisdictions made a total of 506 allegations of staff sexual misconduct; of these only 92, or 18 percent, were sustained. "Because many …
Mark Cook Freed by On April 3, 2000, PLN contributing writer Mark Cook was released from the Monroe Correctional Complex in Washington. Mark was imprisoned for more than 24 years in Washington and federal prisons after being captured and charged in 1976 with carrying out action on behalf of the …
U.S. Supreme Court to Revisit Civil Commitment by On March 20, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted Certiorari to the State of Washington appealing a ninth. Circuit order for the district court to hold an evidentiary hearing to determine if the state's civil commitment statute "as applied" to petitioner renders …
Washington Restitution Orders Are Invalid After 10 Years by The Washington state Supreme Court, sitting En Banc, held that the 10 year life of restitution orders begins to run upon release from confinement and is not tolled by any subsequent imprisonment on unrelated charges. In 1986, Brandt Sappenfield was convicted …
Dehut v. Evans, WA, Tort Complaint, Censorship, 2000 . MAY-31-00 WED 10:43 AM FAX NO. P. 09 - ..... I r""'''-.~~" ... '.:. t ~HE SUPERIOR 2 ~ THE COUNTY Of SEOKANE 3 JEFFERY MICHAEL DeBUT, ,:-·.1 COU~T OF WASHINGTON ~ ~.:::.. ,-_, ":.' .. - J O:::C -9 99 …
Billen v. Snohomish County, WA, Complaint, ADA Violation, 2000 • ", . '- '\, 1 RECEIVED 2 2000 MAY 23 PM 2: 26 3 BOB TERWILLIGER AUDITOR Sr-JOHOriiSH COUNTY. WASH. 4 fEPUTY£ 5 _ 6 7 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY …
2003 Washington Legislative Round-up by Lonnie Burton In its 2003 session the Washington leg-islature enacted numerous laws affecting prisoners. Highlights of the most relevant laws are as follows: Regional Jails Substitute House Bill 1609 instructs the Sentencing Guidelines Commission to present a plan by Dec. 31, 2003, for creating "pilot …
Washington DOC Personnel In-Fighting Results in $230,000 Settlement by An acrimonious inter-employee dis-pute among staff of Washington's Department of Corrections was settled in January, 2002 by the state paying three Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) employees $230,000 and gaining both their resignations as well as promises never again to work for …
