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Washington Prison Labor Program Struck Down
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2004
by Paul Wright
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2004, page 22
by Roger Smith & Paul Wright
Filed under:
Work,
Prison Industries,
Prison Labor,
Seizure of Prisoner Funds.
Location:
Washington.
In a rare reversal of its own prior ruling, the Washington state supreme court has ruled that the Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) must stop "letting out" convict labor to private businesses. The court found that practice to violate art. II, sec. 29 of ...
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