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2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.05 - Children and Youth Services. › 72.05.420 - Placement in community facility—Necessary conditions and actions—Department's duties.

RCW 72.05.420
Placement in community facility—Necessary conditions and actions—Department's duties.
(1) The department shall not initially place an offender in a community facility unless:
(a) The department has conducted a risk assessment, including a determination of drug and alcohol abuse, and the results indicate the juvenile will pose not more than a minimum risk to public safety; and
(b) The offender has spent at least ten percent of his or her sentence, but in no event less than thirty days, in a secure institution operated by, or under contract with, the department.
The risk assessment must include consideration of all prior convictions and all available nonconviction data released upon request under RCW 10.97.050, and any serious infractions or serious violations while under the jurisdiction of the secretary or the courts.
(2) No juvenile offender may be placed in a community facility until the juvenile's student records and information have been received and the department has reviewed them in conjunction with all other information used for risk assessment, security classification, and placement of the juvenile.
(3) A juvenile offender shall not be placed in a community facility until the department's risk assessment and security classification is complete and local law enforcement has been properly notified.
[ 1998 c 269 § 10.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—Effective date—1998 c 269: See notes following RCW 72.05.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.05 - Children and Youth Services. › 72.05.425 - Student records and information—Necessary for risk assessment, security classification, and proper placement—Rules.

RCW 72.05.425
Student records and information—Necessary for risk assessment, security classification, and proper placement—Rules.
(1) The department shall establish by rule, in consultation with the office of the superintendent of public instruction, those student records and information necessary to conduct a risk assessment, make a security classification, and ensure proper placement. Those records shall include at least:
(a) Any history of placement in special education programs;
(b) Any past, current, or pending disciplinary action;
(c) Any history of violent, aggressive, or disruptive behavior, or gang membership, or behavior listed in RCW 13.04.155;
(d) Any use of weapons that is illegal or in violation of school policy;
(e) Any history of truancy;
(f) Any drug or alcohol abuse;
(g) Any health conditions affecting the juvenile's placement needs; and
(h) Any other relevant information.
(2) For purposes of this section "gang" has the meaning defined in RCW 28A.225.225.
[ 1998 c 269 § 13.]
NOTES:
Intent—Finding—Effective date—1998 c 269: See notes following RCW 72.05.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.05 - Children and Youth Services. › 72.05.435 - Common use of residential group homes for juvenile offenders—Placement of juvenile convicted of a class A felony.

RCW 72.05.435
Common use of residential group homes for juvenile offenders—Placement of juvenile convicted of a class A felony.
(1) The department shall establish by rule a policy for the common use of residential group homes for juvenile offenders under the jurisdiction of the department.
(2) A juvenile confined under the jurisdiction of the department who is convicted of a class A felony is not eligible for placement in a community facility operated by the department that houses juveniles under the department's care pursuant to a dependency proceeding under chapter 13.34 RCW unless:
(a) The juvenile is housed in a separate living unit solely for juvenile offenders;
(b) The community facility is a specialized treatment program and the youth is not assessed as sexually aggressive under RCW 13.40.470; or
(c) The community facility is a specialized treatment program that houses one or more sexually aggressive youth and the juvenile is not assessed as sexually vulnerable under RCW 13.40.470.
[ 2017 3rd sp.s. c 6 § 706; (2018 c 58 § 52 expired July 1, 2019); 1998 c 269 § 15.]
NOTES:
Expiration date—2018 c 58 § 52: "Section 52 of this act expires July 1, 2019." [ 2018 c 58 § 53.]
Effective date—2018 c 58: See note following RCW 28A.655.080.
Effective date—2017 3rd sp.s. c 6 §§ 601-631, 701-728, and 804: See note following RCW 13.04.011.
Conflict with federal requirements—2017 3rd sp.s. c 6: See RCW 43.216.908.
Intent—Finding—Effective date—1998 c 269: See notes following RCW 72.05.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.05 - Children and Youth Services. › 72.05.440 - Eligibility for employment or volunteer position with juveniles—Must report convictions—Rules.

RCW 72.05.440
Eligibility for employment or volunteer position with juveniles—Must report convictions—Rules.
(1) A person shall not be eligible for an employed or volunteer position within the department of children, youth, and families or any agency with which it contracts in which the person may have regular access to juveniles under the jurisdiction of the department of children, youth, and families or the department of corrections if the person has been convicted of one or more of the following:
(a) Any felony sex offense;
(b) Any violent offense, as defined in RCW 9.94A.030.
(2) Subsection (1) of this section applies only to persons hired by the department or any of its contracting agencies after September 1, 1998.
(3) Any person employed by the department of children, youth, and families, or by any contracting agency, who may have regular access to juveniles under the jurisdiction of the department of children, youth, and families or the department of corrections and who is convicted of an offense set forth in this section after September 1, 1998, shall report the conviction to his or her supervisor. The report must be made within seven days of conviction. Failure to report within seven days of conviction constitutes misconduct under Title 50 RCW.
(4) For purposes of this section "may have regular access to juveniles" means access for more than a nominal amount of time.
(5) The department shall adopt rules to implement this section.
[ 2017 3rd sp.s. c 6 § 707; 1998 c 269 § 16.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2017 3rd sp.s. c 6 §§ 601-631, 701-728, and 804: See note following RCW 13.04.011.
Conflict with federal requirements—2017 3rd sp.s. c 6: See RCW 43.216.908.
Intent—Finding—Effective date—1998 c 269: See notes following RCW 72.05.020.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.05 - Children and Youth Services. › 72.05.450 - Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.

RCW 72.05.450
Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.
(1) Except in extraordinary circumstances no restraints of any kind may be used on any pregnant youth in an institution or a community facility covered by this chapter during transportation to and from visits to medical providers and court proceedings during the third trimester of her pregnancy, or during postpartum recovery. For purposes of this section, "extraordinary circumstances" exist where an employee of an institution or community facility covered by this chapter makes an individualized determination that restraints are necessary to prevent an incarcerated pregnant youth from escaping, or from injuring herself, medical or correctional personnel, or others. In the event an employee of an institution or community facility covered by this chapter determines that extraordinary circumstances exist and restraints are used, the corrections officer or employee must fully document in writing the reasons that he or she determined such extraordinary circumstances existed such that restraints were used. As part of this documentation, the employee of an institution or community facility covered by this chapter must also include the kind of restraints used and the reasons those restraints were considered the least restrictive available and the most reasonable under the circumstances.
(2) While the pregnant youth is in labor or in childbirth no restraints of any kind may be used. Nothing in this section affects the use of hospital restraints requested for the medical safety of a patient by treating physicians licensed under Title 18 RCW.
(3) Anytime restraints are permitted to be used on a pregnant youth, the restraints must be the least restrictive available and the most reasonable under the circumstances, but in no case shall leg irons or waist chains be used on any youth known to be pregnant.
(4) No employee of the institution or community facility shall be present in the room during the pregnant youth's labor or childbirth, unless specifically requested by medical personnel. If the employee's presence is requested by medical personnel, the employee should be female, if practicable.
(5) If the doctor, nurse, or other health professional treating the pregnant youth requests that restraints not be used, the employee accompanying the pregnant youth shall immediately remove all restraints.
[ 2010 c 181 § 8.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.05 - Children and Youth Services. › 72.05.451 - Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant youth in custody.

RCW 72.05.451
Use of restraints on pregnant youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant youth in custody.
(1) The secretary shall provide an informational packet about the requirements of chapter 181, Laws of 2010 to all medical staff and nonmedical staff of the institution or community facility who are involved in the transportation of youth who are pregnant, as well as such other staff as the secretary deems appropriate. The informational packet provided to staff under this section shall be developed as provided in RCW 70.48.800.
(2) The secretary shall cause the requirements of chapter 181, Laws of 2010 to be provided to all youth who are pregnant, at the time the secretary assumes custody of the person. In addition, the secretary shall cause a notice containing the requirements of chapter 181, Laws of 2010 to be posted in conspicuous locations in the institutions or community facilities, including but not limited to the locations in which medical care is provided within the facilities.
[ 2010 c 181 § 9.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.05 - Children and Youth Services. › 72.05.460 - Youth adjudicated/sentenced by tribal court—Department may provide residential custody services in state juvenile rehabilitation facility—Contract between department and tribe.

RCW 72.05.460
Youth adjudicated/sentenced by tribal court—Department may provide residential custody services in state juvenile rehabilitation facility—Contract between department and tribe.
(1) The department may provide residential custody services in a state juvenile rehabilitation facility to youth adjudicated and sentenced by a court of any federally recognized Indian tribe located within the state of Washington, pursuant to a contract between the department and the tribe that is entered into in compliance with the interlocal cooperation act, chapter 39.34 RCW.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "Residential custody services" means a comprehensive program established pursuant to RCW 72.05.130 for the custody, care, education, treatment, instruction, guidance, control, and rehabilitation of youth committed to a state juvenile rehabilitation facility.
(b) "State juvenile rehabilitation facility" means an institution as defined in *RCW 13.40.020(13), a community facility as defined in RCW 72.05.020(1), or other juvenile rehabilitation facility operated by the department.
[ 2018 c 31 § 1.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: RCW 13.40.020 was amended by 2021 c 328 § 5, changing subsection (13) to subsection (14), effective January 1, 2022.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.06 - Mental Health. › 72.06.010 - "Department" defined.

RCW 72.06.010
"Department" defined.
"Department" for the purposes of this chapter shall mean the department of social and health services.
[ 1970 ex.s. c 18 § 59; 1959 c 28 § 72.06.010. Prior: 1957 c 272 § 9. Formerly RCW 43.28.040.]
NOTES:
Effective date—Severability—1970 ex.s. c 18: See notes following RCW 43.20A.010.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.06 - Mental Health. › 72.06.050 - Mental health—Dissemination of information and advice by department.

RCW 72.06.050
Mental health—Dissemination of information and advice by department.
The department shall cooperate with other departments of state government and its political subdivisions in the following manner:
(1) By disseminating educational information relating to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.
(2) Upon request therefor, by advising public officers, organizations and agencies interested in the mental health of the people of the state.
[ 1977 ex.s. c 80 § 46; 1959 c 28 § 72.06.050. Prior: 1955 c 136 § 2. Formerly RCW 43.28.600.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Intent—Severability—1977 ex.s. c 80: See notes following RCW 4.16.190.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.06 - Mental Health. › 72.06.060 - Mental health—Psychiatric outpatient clinics.

RCW 72.06.060
Mental health—Psychiatric outpatient clinics.
The department is hereby authorized to establish and maintain psychiatric outpatient clinics at such of the several state mental institutions as the secretary shall designate for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses, and the services of such clinics shall be available to any citizen of the state in need thereof, when determined by a physician that such services are not otherwise available, subject to the rules of the department.
[ 1979 c 141 § 185; 1977 ex.s. c 80 § 47; 1959 c 28 § 72.06.060. Prior: 1955 c 136 § 3. Formerly RCW 43.28.610.]
NOTES:
Purpose—Intent—Severability—1977 ex.s. c 80: See notes following RCW 4.16.190.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.06 - Mental Health. › 72.06.070 - Mental health—Cooperation of department and state hospitals with local programs.

RCW 72.06.070
Mental health—Cooperation of department and state hospitals with local programs.
The department and the several state hospitals for the mentally ill shall cooperate with local mental health programs by providing necessary information, recommendations relating to proper aftercare for patients paroled or discharged from such institutions and shall also supply the services of psychiatrists, psychologists and other persons specialized in mental illness as they are available.
[ 1959 c 28 § 72.06.070. Prior: 1955 c 136 § 4. Formerly RCW 43.28.620.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.030 - Department created—Secretary.

RCW 72.09.030
Department created—Secretary.
There is created a department of state government to be known as the department of corrections. The executive head of the department shall be the secretary of corrections who shall be appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate. The secretary shall serve at the pleasure of the governor and shall receive a salary to be fixed under RCW 43.03.040.
[ 1981 c 136 § 3.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.040 - Transfer of functions from department of social and health services.

RCW 72.09.040
Transfer of functions from department of social and health services.
All powers, duties, and functions assigned to the secretary of social and health services and to the department of social and health services relating to adult correctional programs and institutions are hereby transferred to the secretary of corrections and to the department of corrections. Except as may be specifically provided, all functions of the department of social and health services relating to juvenile rehabilitation and the juvenile justice system shall remain in the department of social and health services. Where functions of the department of social and health services and the department of corrections overlap in the juvenile rehabilitation and/or juvenile justice area, the governor may allocate such functions between these departments.
[ 1998 c 245 § 139; 1981 c 136 § 4.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.050 - Powers and duties of secretary.

RCW 72.09.050
Powers and duties of secretary.
The secretary shall manage the department of corrections and shall be responsible for the administration of adult correctional programs, including but not limited to the operation of all state correctional institutions or facilities used for the confinement of convicted felons. In addition, the secretary shall have broad powers to enter into agreements with any federal agency, any federally recognized tribe, or any other state, or any Washington state agency or local government providing for the operation of any correctional facility or program for persons convicted of felonies or misdemeanors or for juvenile offenders. Such agreements for counties with local law and justice councils shall be required in the local law and justice plan pursuant to RCW 72.09.300. The agreements may provide for joint operation or operation by the department of corrections, alone, for by any of the other governmental entities, alone. The secretary may employ persons to aid in performing the functions and duties of the department. The secretary may delegate any of his or her functions or duties to department employees, including the authority to certify and maintain custody of records and documents on file with the department. The secretary is authorized to promulgate standards for the department of corrections within appropriation levels authorized by the legislature.
Pursuant to the authority granted in chapter 34.05 RCW, the secretary shall adopt rules providing for inmate restitution when restitution is determined appropriate as a result of a disciplinary action.
[ 2022 c 254 § 3; 2020 c 318 § 5. Prior: 1999 c 309 § 1902; 1999 c 309 § 924; 1995 c 189 § 1; 1991 c 363 § 149; 1987 c 312 § 4; 1986 c 19 § 1; 1981 c 136 § 5.]
NOTES:
Finding—2022 c 254: See note following RCW 72.09.015.
Findings—Intent—Construction—Effective date—2020 c 318: See notes following RCW 72.68.110.
Effective dates—1999 c 309 §§ 927-929, 931, and 1101-1902: See note following RCW 43.79.480.
Severability—Effective date—1999 c 309: See notes following RCW 41.06.152.
Purpose—Captions not law—1991 c 363: See notes following RCW 2.32.180.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.055 - Affordable housing—Inventory of suitable property.

RCW 72.09.055
Affordable housing—Inventory of suitable property.
(1) The department shall identify and catalog real property that is no longer required for department purposes and is suitable for the development of affordable housing for very low-income, low-income, and moderate-income households as defined in RCW 43.63A.510. The inventory shall include the location, approximate size, and current zoning classification of the property. The department shall provide a copy of the inventory to the department of commerce by November 1, 1993, and every November 1 thereafter.
(2) By November 1 of each year, beginning in 1994, the department shall purge the inventory of real property of sites that are no longer available for the development of affordable housing. The department shall include an updated listing of real property that has become available since the last update. As used in this section, "real property" means buildings, land, or buildings and land.
[ 2023 c 470 § 2120; 1995 c 399 § 202; 1993 c 461 § 12.]
NOTES:
Explanatory statement—2023 c 470: See note following RCW 10.99.030.
Finding—1993 c 461: See note following RCW 43.63A.510.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.057 - Fees for reproduction, shipment, and certification of documents and records.

RCW 72.09.057
Fees for reproduction, shipment, and certification of documents and records.
The department may charge reasonable fees for the reproduction, shipment, and certification of documents, records, and other materials in the files of the department.
[ 1995 c 189 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.060 - Organization of department—Program for public involvement and volunteers.

RCW 72.09.060
Organization of department—Program for public involvement and volunteers.
The department of corrections may be organized into such divisions or offices as the secretary may determine, but shall include divisions for (1) correctional industries, (2) prisons and other custodial institutions and (3) probation, parole, community restitution, restitution, and other nonincarcerative sanctions. The secretary shall have at least one person on his or her staff who shall have the responsibility for developing a program which encourages the use of volunteers, for citizen advisory groups, and for similar public involvement programs in the corrections area. Minimum qualification for staff assigned to public involvement responsibilities shall include previous experience in working with volunteers or volunteer agencies.
[ 2002 c 175 § 48; 1989 c 185 § 3; 1981 c 136 § 6.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2002 c 175: See note following RCW 7.80.130.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.070 - Correctional industries advisory committee—Recommendations.

RCW 72.09.070
Correctional industries advisory committee—Recommendations.
There is created a correctional industries advisory committee which shall have the composition provided in RCW 72.09.080. The advisory committee shall make recommendations to the secretary regarding the implementation of RCW 72.09.100.
[ 2011 1st sp.s. c 21 § 35; 2004 c 167 § 1; 1994 sp.s. c 7 § 535; 1993 sp.s. c 20 § 3; 1989 c 185 § 4; 1981 c 136 § 8.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2011 1st sp.s. c 21: See note following RCW 72.23.025.
Finding—Intent—Severability—1994 sp.s. c 7: See notes following RCW 43.70.540.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.080 - Correctional industries advisory committee—Appointment of members, chair—Compensation—Support.

RCW 72.09.080
Correctional industries advisory committee—Appointment of members, chair—Compensation—Support.
(1) The correctional industries advisory committee shall consist of nine voting members, appointed by the secretary. Each member shall serve a three-year staggered term. The speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate shall each appoint one member from each of the two largest caucuses in their respective houses. The legislators so appointed shall be nonvoting members and shall serve two-year terms, or until they cease to be members of the house from which they were appointed, whichever occurs first. The nine members appointed by the secretary shall include three representatives from labor, three representatives from business representing cross sections of industries and all sizes of employers, and three members from the general public.
(2) The committee shall elect a chair and such other officers as it deems appropriate from among the voting members.
(3) The voting members of the committee shall serve with compensation pursuant to RCW 43.03.240 and shall be reimbursed by the department for travel expenses and per diem under RCW 43.03.050 and 43.03.060, as now or hereafter amended. Legislative members shall be reimbursed under RCW 44.04.120, as now or hereafter amended.
(4) The secretary shall provide such staff services, facilities, and equipment as the board shall require to carry out its duties.
[ 2011 1st sp.s. c 21 § 40; 1993 sp.s. c 20 § 4; 1989 c 185 § 5; 1981 c 136 § 9.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2011 1st sp.s. c 21: See note following RCW 72.23.025.
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.090 - Correctional industries account—Expenditure—Profits—Appropriations.

RCW 72.09.090
Correctional industries account—Expenditure—Profits—Appropriations.
The correctional industries account is established in the state treasury. The department of corrections shall deposit in the account all moneys collected and all profits that accrue from the industrial and agricultural operations of the department and any moneys appropriated to the account. Moneys in the account may be spent only for expenses arising in the correctional industries operations.
The division's net profits from correctional industries' sales and contracts shall be reinvested, without appropriation, in the expansion and improvement of correctional industries. However, the secretary shall annually recommend that some portion of the profits from correctional industries be returned to the state general fund.
The secretary shall request appropriations or increased appropriations whenever it appears that additional money is needed to provide for the establishment and operation of a comprehensive correctional industries program. During the 2015-2017 fiscal biennium, the legislature may appropriate from the correctional industries account for increased caseload costs at the department of corrections such amounts as reflect the excess fund balance of the account.
[ 2016 sp.s. c 36 § 945; 2011 1st sp.s. c 21 § 36; 1989 c 185 § 6; 1987 c 7 § 203; 1981 c 136 § 10.]
NOTES:
Effective date—2016 sp.s. c 36: See note following RCW 18.20.430.
Effective date—2011 1st sp.s. c 21: See note following RCW 72.23.025.
Severability—1987 c 7: "If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected." [ 1987 c 7 § 901.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.095 - Transfer of funds to department of labor and industries for crime victims' compensation.

RCW 72.09.095
Transfer of funds to department of labor and industries for crime victims' compensation.
Each year the department shall transfer twenty-five percent of the total annual revenues and receipts received in each institutional betterment fund subaccount to the department of labor and industries for the purpose of providing direct benefits to crime victims through the crime victims' compensation program as outlined in chapter 7.68 RCW. This transfer takes priority over any expenditure of betterment funds and shall be reflected on the monthly financial statements of each institution's betterment fund subaccount.
Any funds so transferred to the department of labor and industries shall be in addition to the crime victims' compensation amount provided in an omnibus appropriation bill. It is the intent of the legislature that the funds forecasted or transferred pursuant to this section shall not reduce the funding levels provided by appropriation.
[ 1995 c 234 § 2.]
NOTES:
Finding—1995 c 234: "The legislature finds that the responsibility for criminal activity should fall squarely on the criminal. To the greatest extent possible society should not be expected to have to pay the price for crimes twice, once for the criminal activity and again by feeding, clothing, and housing the criminal. The corrections system should be the first place criminals are given the opportunity to be responsible for paying for their criminal act, not just through the loss of their personal freedom, but by making financial contributions to alleviate the pain and suffering of victims of crime." [ 1995 c 234 § 1.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.101 - Inmate work program—Administrators' duty.

RCW 72.09.101
Inmate work program—Administrators' duty.
Administrators of work programs described in RCW 72.09.100 shall ensure that no inmate convicted of a sex offense as defined in chapter 9A.44 RCW obtains access to names, addresses, or telephone numbers of private individuals while performing his or her duties in an inmate work program.
[ 1998 c 83 § 1.]
NOTES:
Effective date—1998 c 83: "This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately [March 20, 1998]." [ 1998 c 83 § 2.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.104 - Prison work programs to operate automated data input and retrieval systems.

RCW 72.09.104
Prison work programs to operate automated data input and retrieval systems.
The *department of general administration and the department of corrections shall implement prison work programs to operate automated data input and retrieval systems for appropriate departments of state government.
[ 1983 c 296 § 3.]
NOTES:
*Reviser's note: The "department of general administration" was renamed the "department of enterprise services" by 2011 1st sp.s. c 43 § 107.
Findings—1983 c 296: "The legislature finds and declares that the costs of state government automated data input and retrieval are escalating. The legislature further finds and declares that new record conversion technologies offer a promising means for coping with current records management problems." [ 1983 c 296 § 1.]
Policy—1983 c 296: "It is the policy of the state of Washington that state prisons shall provide prisoners with a work environment in order that, upon their release, inmates may have the skills necessary for the successful reentry into society. It is also the policy of the state to promote the establishment and growth of prison industries whose work shall benefit the state." [ 1983 c 296 § 2.]
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.]
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 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.
2023 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.]
2023 Revised Code of Washington › Title 72 - State Institutions › Chapter 72.09 - Department of Corrections. › 72.09.275 - Duty to notify of process for restoration of voting rights.

RCW 72.09.275
Duty to notify of process for restoration of voting rights.
(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.