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Washington Prisoners Must Pre-Pay for Record Inspection
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2007, page 28
The Washington Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court?s refusal to require the Washington Department of Corrections (WDOC) to allow prisoners to inspect records without pre-payment of copy and postage expenses.
WDOC Policy No. 280.510 grants prisoners a right of access on demand only to documents in their own ...
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