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WA Rev Code § 72.09.106 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.106 - Subcontracting of data input and microfilm capacities.

RCW 72.09.106 Subcontracting of data input and microfilm capacities.Class II correctional industries may subcontract its data input and microfilm capacities to firms from the private sector. Inmates employed under these subcontracts will be paid in accordance with the Class I free venture industries procedures and wage scale.[ 1989 c 185 § 8; 1983 c 296 § 4.]NOTES:Findings—Policy—1983 c 296: See notes following RCW 72.09.104.
WA Rev Code § 72.09.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.110 - Inmates' wages—Supporting cost of corrections—Crime victims' compensation and family support.

RCW 72.09.110 Inmates' wages—Supporting cost of corrections—Crime victims' compensation and family support.All inmates working in prison industries shall participate in the cost of corrections, including costs to develop and implement correctional industries programs, by means of deductions from their gross wages. The secretary may direct the state treasurer to deposit a portion of these moneys in the crime victims compensation account. The secretary shall direct that all moneys received by an inmate for testifying in any judicial proceeding shall be deposited into the crime victims compensation account.When the secretary finds it appropriate and not unduly destructive of the work incentive, the secretary may also provide deductions for savings and family support.[ 1993 sp.s. c 20 § 5; 1991 c 133 § 1; 1989 c 185 § 9; 1986 c 162 § 1; 1981 c 136 § 12.]
WA Rev Code § 72.09.116 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.116 - Information obtained under RCW 72.09.115 exempt from public disclosure.

RCW 72.09.116 Information obtained under RCW 72.09.115 exempt from public disclosure.All records, documents, data, and other materials obtained under the requirements of RCW 72.09.115 from an existing correctional industries class I work program participant or an applicant for a proposed new or expanded class I correctional industries work program are exempt from public disclosure under chapter 42.56 RCW.[ 2005 c 274 § 347; 2004 c 167 § 8.]
WA Rev Code § 72.09.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.120 - Distribution of list of inmate job opportunities.

RCW 72.09.120 Distribution of list of inmate job opportunities.In order to assist inmates in finding work within prison industries, the department shall periodically prepare and distribute a list of prison industries' job opportunities, which shall include job descriptions and the educational and skill requirements for each job.[ 1981 c 136 § 16.]
WA Rev Code § 72.09.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.130 - Incentive system for participation in education and work programs—Rules—Dissemination.

RCW 72.09.130 Incentive system for participation in education and work programs—Rules—Dissemination.(1) The department shall adopt, by rule, a system that clearly links an inmate's behavior and participation in available education and work programs with the receipt or denial of earned early release days and other privileges. The system shall include increases or decreases in the degree of liberty granted the inmate within the programs operated by the department, access to or withholding of privileges available within correctional institutions, and recommended increases or decreases in the number of earned early release days that an inmate can earn for good conduct and good performance.(2) Earned early release days shall be recommended by the department as a reward for accomplishment. The system shall be fair, measurable, and understandable to offenders, staff, and the public. At least once in each twelve-month period, the department shall inform the offender in writing as to his or her conduct and performance. This written evaluation shall include reasons for awarding or not awarding recommended earned early release days for good conduct and good performance. An inmate is not eligible to receive earned early release days during any time in which he or she refuses to participate in an available education or work program into which he or she has been placed under RCW 72.09.460.(3) The department shall provide each offender in its custody a written description of the system created under this section.[ 1995 1st sp.s. c 19 § 6; 1981 c 136 § 17.]NOTES:Findings—Purpose—Short title—Severability—Effective date—1995 1st sp.s. c 19: See notes following RCW 72.09.450.
WA Rev Code § 72.09.135 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.135 - Adoption of standards for correctional facilities.

RCW 72.09.135 Adoption of standards for correctional facilities.The department of corrections shall, no later than July 1, 1987, adopt standards for the operation of state adult correctional facilities. These standards shall be the minimums necessary to meet federal and state constitutional requirements relating to health, safety, and welfare of inmates and staff, and specific state and federal statutory requirements, and to provide for the public's health, safety, and welfare. The need for each standard shall be documented.[ 1987 c 462 § 15.]NOTES:Effective dates—1987 c 462: See note following RCW 13.04.116.
WA Rev Code § 72.09.190 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.190 - Legal services for inmates.

RCW 72.09.190 Legal services for inmates.(1) It is the intent of the legislature that reasonable legal services be provided to persons committed to the custody of the department of corrections. The department shall contract with persons or organizations to provide legal services. The secretary shall adopt procedures designed to minimize any conflict of interest, or appearance thereof, in respect to the provision of legal services and the department's administration of such contracts.(2) Persons who contract to provide legal services are expressly forbidden to solicit plaintiffs or promote litigation which has not been pursued initially by a person entitled to such services under this section.(3) Persons who contract to provide legal services shall exhaust all informal means of resolving a legal complaint or dispute prior to the filing of any court proceeding.(4) Nothing in this section forbids the secretary to supplement contracted legal services with any of the following: (a) Law libraries, (b) law student interns, and (c) volunteer attorneys.(5) The total due a contractor as compensation, fees, or reimbursement under the terms of the contract shall be reduced by the total of any other compensation, fees, or reimbursement received by or due the contractor for the performance of any legal service to inmates during the contract period. Any amount received by a contractor under contract which is not due under this section shall be immediately returned by the contractor.[ 1981 c 136 § 23.]
WA Rev Code § 72.09.200 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.200 - Transfer of files, property, and appropriations.

RCW 72.09.200 Transfer of files, property, and appropriations.All reports, documents, surveys, books, records, files, papers, and other writings in the possession of the department of social and health services pertaining to the functions transferred by RCW 72.09.040 shall be delivered to the custody of the department of corrections. All cabinets, furniture, office equipment, motor vehicles, and other tangible property employed exclusively in carrying out the powers and duties transferred by RCW 72.09.040 shall be made available to the department of corrections. All funds, credits, or other assets held in connection with the functions transferred by RCW 72.09.040 shall be assigned to the department of corrections.Any appropriations made to the department of social and health services for the purpose of carrying out the powers, duties, and functions transferred by RCW 72.09.040 shall on July 1, 1981, be transferred and credited to the department of corrections for the purpose of carrying out the transferred powers, duties, and functions.Whenever any question arises as to the transfer of any funds including unexpended balances within any accounts, books, documents, records, papers, files, equipment, or other tangible property used or held in the exercise of the powers and the performance of the duties and functions transferred under RCW 72.09.040, the director of financial management shall make a determination as to the proper allocation and certify the same to the state agencies concerned.If apportionments of budgeted funds are required because of the transfers authorized in this section, the director of financial management shall certify the apportionments to the agencies affected, the state auditor, and the state treasurer. Each of these shall make the appropriate transfer and adjustments in funds and appropriation accounts and equipment records in accordance with the certification.[ 1981 c 136 § 31.]
WA Rev Code § 72.09.210 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.210 - Transfer of employees.

RCW 72.09.210 Transfer of employees.All employees of the department of social and health services who are directly employed in connection with the exercise of the powers and performance of the duties and functions transferred to the department of corrections by RCW 72.09.040 shall be transferred on July 1, 1981, to the jurisdiction of the department of corrections.All such employees classified under chapter 41.06 RCW, the state civil service law, shall be assigned to the department of corrections. Except as otherwise provided, such employees shall be assigned without any loss of rights, subject to any action that may be appropriate thereafter in accordance with the laws and rules governing the state civil service law.[ 1981 c 136 § 32.]
WA Rev Code § 72.09.220 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.220 - Employee rights under collective bargaining.

RCW 72.09.220 Employee rights under collective bargaining.Nothing contained in RCW 72.09.010 through 72.09.190, 72.09.901, and section 13, chapter 136, Laws of 1981 may be construed to downgrade any rights of any employee under any existing collective bargaining unit or the provisions of any existing collective bargaining agreement until the agreement has expired or until the bargaining unit has been modified by action of the Washington personnel resources board as provided by law.[ 1993 c 281 § 64; 1981 c 136 § 33.]NOTES:Effective date—1993 c 281: See note following RCW 41.06.022.
WA Rev Code § 72.09.230 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.230 - Duties continued during transition.

RCW 72.09.230 Duties continued during transition.All state officials required to maintain contact with or provide services to the department or secretary of social and health services relating to adult corrections shall continue to perform the services for the department of corrections.In order to ease the transition of adult corrections to the department of corrections, the governor may require an interagency agreement between the department and the department of social and health services under which the department of social and health services would, on a temporary basis, continue to perform all or part of any specified function of the department of corrections.[ 1981 c 136 § 34.]
WA Rev Code § 72.09.251 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.251 - Communicable disease prevention guidelines.

RCW 72.09.251 Communicable disease prevention guidelines.(1) The department shall develop and implement policies and procedures for the uniform distribution of communicable disease prevention guidelines to all corrections staff who, in the course of their regularly assigned job responsibilities, may come within close physical proximity to offenders with communicable diseases.(2) The guidelines shall identify special precautions necessary to reduce the risk of transmission of communicable diseases.(3) For the purposes of this section, "communicable disease" means sexually transmitted diseases, as defined in RCW 70.24.017, diseases caused by blood-borne pathogens, or any other illness caused by an infectious agent that can be transmitted from one person, animal, or object to another person by direct or indirect means including transmission via an intermediate host or vector, food, water, or air.[ 1997 c 345 § 4.]NOTES:Findings—Intent—1997 c 345: See note following RCW 70.24.340.
WA Rev Code § 72.09.260 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.260 - Litter cleanup programs—Requirements.

RCW 72.09.260 Litter cleanup programs—Requirements.(1) The department shall assist local units of government in establishing community restitution programs for litter cleanup. Community restitution litter cleanup programs must include the following: (a) Procedures for documenting the number of community restitution hours worked in litter cleanup by each offender; (b) plans to coordinate litter cleanup activities with local governmental entities responsible for roadside and park maintenance; (c) insurance coverage for offenders during litter cleanup activities pursuant to RCW 51.12.045; (d) provision of adequate safety equipment and, if needed, weather protection gear; and (e) provision for including felons and misdemeanants in the program.(2) Community restitution programs established under this section shall involve, but not be limited to, persons convicted of nonviolent, drug-related offenses.(3) Nothing in this section shall diminish the department's authority to place offenders in community restitution programs or to determine the suitability of offenders for specific programs.(4) As used in this section, "litter cleanup" includes cleanup and removal of solid waste that is illegally dumped.[ 2002 c 175 § 50; 1990 c 66 § 2.]NOTES:Effective date—2002 c 175: See note following RCW 7.80.130.Findings—Intent—1990 c 66: "The legislature finds that the amount of litter along the state's roadways is increasing at an alarming rate and that local governments often lack the human and fiscal resources to remove litter from public roads. The legislature also finds that persons committing nonviolent, drug-related offenses can often be productively engaged through programs to remove litter from county and municipal roads. It is therefore the intent of the legislature to assist local units of government in establishing community restitution programs for litter cleanup and to establish a funding source for such programs." [ 2002 c 175 § 51; 1990 c 66 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 72.09.275 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.275 - Duty to notify inmate of process for restoration of voting rights.

RCW 72.09.275 Duty to notify inmate of process for restoration of voting rights. (Effective until January 1, 2022.)The department shall notify an inmate, in writing, of the process for provisional and permanent restoration of voting rights, as described in RCW 29A.08.520, prior to the termination of authority of the department over the inmate. The department shall also provide the inmate with:(1) A voter registration form and written instructions for returning the form by mail; and(2) Written information regarding registering to vote in person and electronically.[ 2019 c 43 § 1.]RCW 72.09.275Duty to notify of process for restoration of voting rights. (Effective January 1, 2022.)(1) The department shall notify a person, in writing, of the process for restoration of voting rights, as described in RCW 29A.08.520, prior to the release from, or transfer to partial confinement from, total confinement under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections unless a person is being released from a department of corrections facility to an out-of-state jurisdiction or federal detention center, pursuant to a felony conviction. The department shall also provide the person with:(a) A voter registration form and written instructions for returning the form by mail; and(b) Written information regarding registering to vote in person and electronically.(2) For purposes of this section:(a) A sentence of total confinement does not include confinement imposed as a sanction for a community custody violation under RCW 9.94A.633(1).(b) "Total confinement" has the same meaning as in RCW 9.94A.030.[ 2021 c 10 § 7; 2019 c 43 § 1.]NOTES:Effective date—2021 c 10: See note following RCW 29A.08.520.
WA Rev Code § 72.09.290 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.290 - Correctional facility siting list.

RCW 72.09.290 Correctional facility siting list.(1) No later than July 1, 2007, and every biennium thereafter starting with the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, the department shall prepare a list of counties and rural multicounty geographic areas in which work release facilities, community justice centers and other community-based correctional facilities are anticipated to be sited during the next three fiscal years and transmit the list to the office of financial management and the counties on the list. The list may be updated as needed.(2) In preparing the list, the department shall make substantial efforts to provide for the equitable distribution of work release, community justice centers, or other community-based correctional facilities among counties. The department shall give great weight to the following factors in determining equitable distribution:(a) The locations of existing residential facilities owned or operated by, or operated under contract with, the department in each county;(b) The number and proportion of adult offenders sentenced to the custody or supervision of the department by the courts of the county or rural multicounty geographic area; and(c) The number of adult registered sex offenders classified as level II or III and adult sex offenders registered per thousand persons residing in the county.(3) For purposes of this section, "equitable distribution" means siting or locating work release, community justice centers, or other community-based correctional facilities in a manner that reasonably reflects the proportion of offenders sentenced to the custody or supervision of the department by the courts of each county or rural multicounty geographic area designated by the department, and, to the extent practicable, the proportion of offenders residing in particular jurisdictions or communities within such counties or rural multicounty geographic areas. Equitable distribution is a policy goal, not a basis for any legal challenge to the siting, construction, occupancy, or operation of any facility anywhere in the state.[ 2007 c 483 § 303.]NOTES:Findings—2007 c 483: See RCW 72.78.005.
WA Rev Code § 72.09.310 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.310 - Community custody violator.

RCW 72.09.310 Community custody violator.An inmate in community custody who willfully discontinues making himself or herself available to the department for supervision by making his or her whereabouts unknown or by failing to maintain contact with the department as directed by the community corrections officer shall be deemed an escapee and fugitive from justice, and upon conviction shall be guilty of a class C felony under chapter 9A.20 RCW.[ 1992 c 75 § 6; 1988 c 153 § 6.]NOTES:Effective date—Application of increased sanctions—1988 c 153: See notes following RCW 9.94A.030.
WA Rev Code § 72.09.311 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.311 - Confinement of community custody violators.

RCW 72.09.311 Confinement of community custody violators.(1) The department of corrections shall conduct an analysis of the necessary capacity throughout the state to appropriately confine offenders who violate community custody and formulate recommendations for future capacity. In conducting its analysis, the department must consider:(a) The need to decrease reliance on local correctional facilities to house violators; and(b) The costs and benefits of developing a violator treatment center to provide inpatient treatment, therapies, and counseling.(2) If the department recommends locating or colocating new violator facilities, for jurisdictions planning under RCW 36.70A.040, the department shall work within the local jurisdiction's comprehensive plan process for identifying and siting an essential public facility under RCW 36.70A.200. For jurisdictions not planning under RCW 36.70A.040, the department shall apply the local jurisdiction's zoning or applicable land use code.(3) The department shall report the results of its analysis to the governor and the appropriate committees of the legislature by November 15, 2008.(4) To the extent possible within existing funds, the department is authorized to proceed with the conversion of existing facilities that are appropriate to house violators.[ 2008 c 30 § 1.]
WA Rev Code § 72.09.312 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 72 - State Institutions|Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections.|72.09.312 - Community custody violations—Data and information—Report to the governor and legislature.

RCW 72.09.312 Community custody violations—Data and information—Report to the governor and legislature.(1) The department shall track and collect data and information on violations of community custody conditions and the sanctions imposed for violations under RCW 9.94A.737, which includes, but is not limited to, the following:(a) The number and types of high level violations and the types of sanctions imposed, including term lengths for confinement sanctions;(b) The number and types of low level violations and the types of sanctions imposed, including nonconfinement sanctions, confinement sanctions, and term lengths for confinement sanctions;(c) The circumstances and frequency at which low level violations are elevated to high level violations under RCW 9.94A.737(2)(b);(d) The number of warrants issued for violations;(e) The number of violations resulting in confinement under RCW 9.94A.737(5), including the length of the confinement, the number of times new charges are filed, and the number of times the department received written notice that new charges would not be filed;(f) Trends in the rate of violations, including the rate of all violations, high level violations, and low level violations; and(g) Trends in the rate of confinement, including frequency of confinement sanctions and average stays.(2) The department shall submit a report with a summary of the data and information collected under this section, including statewide and regional trends, to the governor and appropriate committees of the legislature by November 1, 2021, and every November 1st of each year thereafter.[ 2020 c 82 § 4.]NOTES:Appropriation—Report—2020 c 82: See note following RCW 9.94A.737.