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Washington Ad Seg Prisoner Improperly Denied Earned Time
Loaded on Dec. 3, 2014
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2014, page 26
Filed under:
Good Time,
Overdetention,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement.
Location:
Washington.
Washington Ad Seg Prisoner Improperly Denied Earned Time
by Mark Wilson
On December 30, 2013, the Washington State Court of Appeals held that prison officials had improperly denied earned time credit to a prisoner held in administrative segregation (ad seg).
Washington law authorizes sentence reductions for “earned time,” which is ...
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