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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 ... |
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, psychologi... |
72.09.010 | Legislative intent. | It is the intent of the legislature to establish a comprehensive system of corrections for convicted law violators within the state of Washington to accomplish the following objectives. (1) The system should ensure the public safety. The system should be designed and managed to provide the maximum feasible safety for t... |
72.09.015 | Definitions. | The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Adult basic education" means education or instruction designed to achieve general competence of skills in reading, writing, and oral communication, including English as a second language and preparation and testing services for obtaining a high school ... |
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 ... |
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 specificall... |
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 bro... |
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 si... |
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 s 2 .] |
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... |
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 s 35 ; 2004 c 167 s 1 ; 1994 sp.s. c 7 s 535 ; 1993 sp.s. c ... |
72.09.080 | Correctional industries advisory committee—Appointment of members, chair—Compensation—Support. | (1) The correctional industries advisory committee shall consist of 11 voting members in total, with nine of the voting members appointed by the secretary and two of the voting members appointed by the governor. Each member shall serve a three-year staggered term. The speaker of the house of representatives and the pre... |
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... |
72.09.092 | Institutional welfare account. | The institutional welfare account is created in the state treasury. Moneys in the account may be spent only after appropriation. The account shall consist of all moneys in the incarcerated individual betterment fund held by the department as of July 1, 2025, and any revenue and receipts into the incarcerated individual... |
72.09.093 | Institutional welfare account—Incarcerated individual betterment fund must be deposited. | Effective July 1, 2025, the moneys in the incarcerated individual betterment fund established outside the state treasury and held by the department must be deposited into the institutional welfare account created in RCW 72.09.092 . On and after July 1, 2025, all revenues and receipts of the incarcerated individual bett... |
72.09.095 | Institutional welfare account—Transfer of funds to department of labor and industries for crime victims' compensation. | Each year the state treasurer shall transfer 25 percent of the total annual revenues and receipts received in the institutional welfare account, created in RCW 72.09.092 , to the department of labor and industries for the purpose of providing direct benefits to crime victims through the crime victims' compensation prog... |
72.09.100 | Inmate work program—Classes of work programs—Participation—Benefits. | It is the intent of the legislature to vest in the department the power to provide for a comprehensive inmate work program and to remove statutory and other restrictions which have limited work programs in the past. It is also the intent of the legislature to ensure that the department, in developing and selecting corr... |
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 s 1 .]
Effective dat... |
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 s 3 .]
*Reviser's note: The "department of general administration" was renamed the "departm... |
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 s 8 ; 1983 c 296 s 4 .]
Findings — Policy — 198... |
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 compensa... |
72.09.111 | Inmate wages—Deductions—Availability of savings—Recovery of cost of incarceration—Definition. | (1) The secretary shall deduct taxes and legal financial obligations from the wages, gratuities, or workers' compensation benefits payable directly to the inmate under chapter 51.32 RCW, of each inmate working in correctional industries work programs, or otherwise receiving such wages, gratuities, or benefits. The secr... |
72.09.115 | Proposed new class I correctional industries work program—Threshold analysis—Business impact analysis—Public hearing—Finding. | (1) The department must prepare a threshold analysis for any proposed new class I correctional industries work program or the significant expansion of an existing class I correctional industries work program before the department enters into an agreement to provide such products or services. The analysis must state whe... |
72.09.116 | Information obtained under RCW72.09.115exempt 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 R... |
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 s 16 .] |
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 w... |
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 stat... |
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 intere... |
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, mot... |
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 c... |
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 t... |
72.09.225 | Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors. | (1) When the secretary has reasonable cause to believe that sexual intercourse or sexual contact between an employee and an inmate has occurred, notwithstanding any rule adopted under chapter 41.06 RCW the secretary shall immediately suspend the employee. (2) The secretary shall immediately institute proceedings to ter... |
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 correct... |
72.09.240 | Reimbursement of employees for offender assaults. | (1) In recognition of prison overcrowding and the hazardous nature of employment in state correctional institutions and offices, the legislature hereby provides a supplementary program to reimburse employees of the department of corrections and the department of natural resources for some of their costs attributable to... |
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... |
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) p... |
72.09.270 | Individual reentry plan. | (1) The department of corrections shall develop an individual reentry plan as defined in RCW 72.09.015 for every incarcerated individual who is committed to the jurisdiction of the department except: (a) Incarcerated individuals who are sentenced to life without the possibility of release or sentenced to death under *c... |
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 d... |
72.09.280 | Community justice centers. | (1) The department shall continue to establish community justice centers throughout the state for the purpose of providing comprehensive services and monitoring for offenders who are reentering the community. (2) For the purposes of this chapter, "community justice center" is defined as a nonresidential facility staffe... |
72.09.285 | Rental voucher list—Housing providers. | (1) A housing provider may be placed on a list with the department to receive rental vouchers under RCW 9.94A.729 in accordance with the provisions of this section. (2) For living environments with between four and eight beds, or a greater number of individuals if permitted by local code, the department shall provide t... |
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 antici... |
72.09.300 | Local law and justice council—Rules. | (1) Every county legislative authority shall by resolution or ordinance establish a local law and justice council. The county legislative authority shall determine the size and composition of the council, which shall include the county sheriff and a representative of the municipal police departments within the county, ... |
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 jus... |
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 lo... |
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, includi... |
72.09.315 | Court-ordered treatment—Violations—Required notifications. | (1) When an offender is under court-ordered mental health or chemical dependency treatment in the community and the supervision of the department of corrections, and the community corrections officer becomes aware that the person is in violation of the terms of the court's treatment order, the community corrections off... |
72.09.320 | Community placement—Liability. | The state of Washington, the department and its employees, community corrections officers, their staff, and volunteers who assist community corrections officers in the community placement program are not liable for civil damages resulting from any act or omission in the rendering of community placement activities unles... |
72.09.330 | Sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Registration—Notice to persons convicted of sex offenses and kidnapping offenses. | (1) The department shall provide written notification to an inmate convicted of a sex offense or kidnapping offense of the registration requirements of RCW 9A.44.130 at the time of the inmate's release from confinement and shall receive and retain a signed acknowledgment of receipt. (2) The department shall provide wri... |
72.09.333 | Sex offenders—Facilities on McNeil Island. | The secretary is authorized to operate a correctional facility on McNeil Island for the confinement of sex offenders and other offenders sentenced by the courts, and to make necessary repairs, renovations, additions, and improvements to state property for that purpose, notwithstanding any local comprehensive plans, dev... |
72.09.335 | Sex offenders—Treatment assessment and opportunity. | (1) The department shall determine placement for sex offender treatment by assessing the offender's risk for sexual reoffense as the primary factor. The department shall offer offenders the opportunity for sex offender treatment during incarceration based on the following priority: (a) Offenders who are assessed as hig... |
72.09.337 | Sex offenders—Rules regarding. | The secretary of corrections, the secretary of social and health services, the secretary of children, youth, and families, and the indeterminate sentence review board may adopt rules to implement chapter 12, Laws of 2001 2nd sp. sess.
[ 2017 3rd sp.s. c 6 s 631 ; 2001 2nd sp.s. c 12 s 502 .]
Effective date — 2017 3rd s... |
72.09.340 | Supervision of sex offenders—Public safety—Policy for release plan evaluation and approval—Implementation, publicizing, notice—Rejection of residence locations of felony sex offenders of minor victims—Notice—Supervised visitation considerations. | (1) In making all discretionary decisions regarding release plans for and supervision of sex offenders, the department shall set priorities and make decisions based on an assessment of public safety risks. (2) The department shall have a policy governing the department's evaluation and approval of release plans for sex... |
72.09.345 | Sex offenders—Release of information to protect public—End-of-sentence review committee—Assessment—Records access—Review, classification, referral of offenders—Issuance of narrative notices. | (1) In addition to any other information required to be released under this chapter, the department is authorized, pursuant to RCW 4.24.550 , to release relevant information that is necessary to protect the public concerning offenders convicted of sex offenses. (2) In order for law enforcement agencies to have the info... |
72.09.350 | Corrections mental health center—Collaborative arrangement with University of Washington—Services for offenders with mental illness—Annual report to the legislature. | (1) The department of corrections and the University of Washington may enter into a collaborative arrangement to provide improved services for offenders with mental illness with a focus on prevention, treatment, and reintegration into society. The participants in the collaborative arrangement may develop a strategic pl... |
72.09.355 | Provision of behavioral health services—Inspection—Collaboration with department of health. | (1) By July 1, 2026, the department and the department of health shall jointly establish and adopt standards for the provision of behavioral health services to individuals in correctional facilities. (2) Beginning July 1, 2027, the department shall fully implement the standards adopted under this section when providing... |
72.09.370 | Reentry community services program—Plan for postrelease treatment and support services—Rules. | (1) The reentry community services program is established to provide intensive services to persons identified under this subsection and to thereby promote successful reentry, public safety, and recovery. The secretary shall identify persons in confinement or partial confinement who: (a) Are reasonably believed to prese... |
72.09.380 | Rule making—Medicaid—Secretary of corrections—Director of health care authority. | The secretary of the department of corrections and the director of the health care authority shall adopt rules and develop working agreements which will ensure that offenders identified under RCW 72.09.370 (1) will be assisted in making application for medicaid to facilitate a decision regarding their eligibility for s... |
72.09.381 | Rule making—Chapter 214, Laws of 1999—Secretary of corrections—Director of health care authority. | The secretary of the department of corrections and the director of the health care authority shall, in consultation with the behavioral health administrative services organizations, managed care organizations contracted with the health care authority, and provider representatives, each adopt rules as necessary to imple... |
72.09.400 | Work ethic camp program—Findings—Intent. | The legislature finds that high crime rates and a heightened sense of vulnerability have led to increased public pressure on criminal justice officials to increase offender punishment and remove the most dangerous criminals from the streets. As a result, there is unprecedented growth in the corrections populations and ... |
72.09.410 | Work ethic camp program—Generally. | The department of corrections shall establish one work ethic camp. The secretary shall locate the work ethic camp within an already existing department compound or facility, or in a facility that is scheduled to come on line within the initial implementation date outlined in this section. The facility selected for the ... |
72.09.450 | Limitation on denial of access to services and supplies—Recoupment of assessments—Collections. | (1) An inmate shall not be denied access to services or supplies required by state or federal law solely on the basis of his or her inability to pay for them. (2) The department shall record all lawfully authorized assessments for services or supplies as a debt to the department. The department shall recoup the assessm... |
72.09.460 | Incarcerated individual participation in education and work programs—Postsecondary degree education opportunities—Legislative intent—Priorities—Rules—Payment of costs. | (1) Recognizing that there is a positive correlation between education opportunities and reduced recidivism, it is the intent of the legislature to offer appropriate postsecondary degree or certificate opportunities to incarcerated individuals. (2) The legislature intends that all incarcerated individuals be required t... |
72.09.465 | Postsecondary degree education programs. | (1)(a) The department may implement postsecondary degree or certificate education programs at state correctional institutions. (b) The department may consider for inclusion in any postsecondary degree or certificate education program, any education program from an accredited community or technical college, college, or ... |
72.09.467 | Postsecondary degree education programs—Reports to the legislature. | (1) The department, the state board for community and technical colleges, the student achievement council, and the Washington statewide reentry council, in collaboration with an organization representing the presidents of the public four-year institutions of higher education, shall submit a combined report, pursuant to... |
72.09.469 | Postsecondary degree education programs—Study.(Expires January 1, 2029.) | (1)(a) Subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for this specific purpose, the Washington state institute for public policy shall study enrollment, completion, and recidivism rates of incarcerated individuals in the postsecondary education system postrelease. (b) The goal of the study is to understand whethe... |
72.09.470 | Contributions for cost of privileges—Standards. | To the greatest extent practical, all incarcerated individuals shall contribute to the cost of privileges. The department may require incarcerated individuals to contribute to the cost of specific privileges designated by the department in accordance with standards that the department shall develop and adopt to ensure ... |
72.09.480 | Inmate funds subject to deductions—Definitions—Exceptions—Child support collection actions. | (1) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply to this section. (a) "Cost of incarceration" means the cost of providing an inmate with shelter, food, clothing, transportation, supervision, and other services and supplies as may be necessary for the maintenance and support of th... |
72.09.490 | Policy on extended family visitation. | (1) The department shall establish a uniform policy on the privilege of extended family visitation. Not fewer than sixty days before making any changes in any policy on extended family visitation, the department shall: (a) Notify the appropriate legislative committees of the proposed change; and (b) notify the committe... |
72.09.495 | Incarcerated parents—Policies to encourage family contact and engagement. | (1) The secretary of corrections shall review current department policies and assess the following: (a) The impact of existing policies on the ability of offenders to maintain familial contact and engagement between inmates and children; and (b) The adequacy and availability of programs targeted at inmates with childre... |
72.09.500 | Prohibition on weight-lifting. | An inmate found by the superintendent in the institution in which the inmate is incarcerated to have committed an aggravated assault against another person, under rules adopted by the department, is prohibited from participating in weight lifting for a period of two years from the date the finding is made. At the concl... |
72.09.510 | Limitation on purchasing recreational equipment and dietary supplements that increase muscle mass. | Purchases of recreational equipment following June 15, 1995, shall be cost-effective and, to the extent possible, minimize an inmate's ability to substantially increase muscle mass. Dietary supplements made for the sole purpose of increasing muscle mass shall not be available for purchase by inmates unless prescribed b... |
72.09.520 | Limitation on purchase of televisions. | No inmate may acquire or possess a television for personal use for at least sixty days following completion of his or her intake and evaluation process at the Washington Corrections Center or the Washington Corrections Center for Women.
[ 1995 1st sp.s. c 19 s 12 .]
Findings — Purpose — Short title — Severability — Eff... |
72.09.530 | Prohibition on receipt or possession of contraband—Rules. | The secretary shall, in consultation with the attorney general, adopt by rule a uniform policy that prohibits receipt or possession of anything that is determined to be contraband. The rule shall provide consistent maximum protection of legitimate penological interests, including prison security and order and deterrenc... |
72.09.535 | Corrections identification card—Incarcerated persons. | (1) The department must issue a department of corrections identification card to an incarcerated person in a correctional facility for identification and use while in that facility. (2) The department must also issue a department of corrections identification card under this section to any individual in community custo... |
72.09.540 | Inmate name change—Limitations on use—Penalty. | The department may require an offender who obtains an order under RCW 4.24.130 to use the name under which he or she was committed to the department during all official communications with department personnel and in all matters relating to the offender's incarceration or community supervision. An offender officially c... |
72.09.560 | Camp for alien offenders. | *** CHANGE IN 2026 *** (SEE 2632.SL ) ***
The department is authorized to establish a camp for alien offenders and shall be ready to assign offenders to the camp not later than January 1, 1997. The secretary shall locate the camp within the boundaries of an existing department facility.
[ 1998 c 245 s 140 ; 1995 1st sp... |
72.09.580 | Offender records and reports. | Except as specifically prohibited by other law, and for purposes of determining, modifying, or monitoring compliance with conditions of community custody, the department: (1) Shall have access to all relevant records and information in the possession of public agencies relating to offenders, including police reports, p... |
72.09.585 | Mental health services information—Required inquiries and disclosures—Release to court, individuals, indeterminate sentence review board, state and local agencies. | (1) When the department is determining an offender's risk management level, the department shall inquire of the offender and shall be told whether the offender is subject to court-ordered treatment for mental health services or chemical dependency services. The department shall request and the offender shall provide an... |
72.09.588 | Incarcerated individuals who are pregnant—Midwifery or doula services—Reasonable accommodations.(Effective until June 30, 2027.) | (1) The department must make reasonable accommodations for the provision of available midwifery or doula services to incarcerated individuals who are pregnant or who have given birth in the last six weeks. Persons providing midwifery or doula services must be granted appropriate facility access, must be allowed to atte... |
72.09.590 | Community safety. | To the extent practicable, the department shall deploy community corrections staff on the basis of geographic areas in which offenders under the department's jurisdiction are located, and shall establish a systematic means of assessing risk to the safety of those communities.
[ 1999 c 196 s 13 .]
Construction — Short t... |
72.09.600 | Rules—Chapter 196, Laws of 1999. | The secretary of corrections may adopt rules to implement sections 1 through 13, chapter 196, Laws of 1999.
[ 1999 c 196 s 14 .]
Construction — Short title — 1999 c 196: See RCW 72.09.904 and 72.09.905 .
Severability — 1999 c 196: See note following RCW 9.94A.010 . |
72.09.620 | Extraordinary medical placement—Reports. | The secretary shall report annually to the legislature on the number of offenders considered for an extraordinary medical placement, the number of offenders who were granted such a placement, the number of offenders who were denied such a placement, the length of time between initial consideration and the placement dec... |
72.09.630 | Custodial sexual misconduct—Investigation of allegations. | The department shall investigate any alleged violations of RCW 9A.44.160 or 9A.44.170 that are alleged to have been committed by an employee or contract personnel of the department, to determine whether there is probable cause to believe that the allegation is true before reporting the alleged violation to a prosecutin... |
72.09.650 | Use of force by limited authority Washington peace officers—Detention of persons. | (1) An employee of the department who is a limited authority Washington peace officer under RCW 10.93.020 may use reasonable force to detain, search, or remove persons who enter or remain without permission within a correctional facility or institutional grounds or whenever, upon probable cause, it appears to such empl... |
72.09.651 | Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances. | (1) Except in extraordinary circumstances, no restraints of any kind may be used on any pregnant woman or youth incarcerated in a correctional facility during transportation to and from visits to medical providers and court proceedings during the third trimester of her pregnancy, or during postpartum recovery. For purp... |
72.09.652 | Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant women and 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 who are involved in the transportation of women and youth who are pregnant, as well as such other staff as the secretary deems appropriate. The informational packet provi... |
72.09.670 | Gang involvement among incarcerated offenders—Intervention programs—Study. | (1) The department shall study and establish best practices to reduce gang involvement and recruitment among incarcerated offenders. The department shall study and make recommendations regarding the establishment of: (a) Intervention programs within the institutions of the department for offenders who are seeking to op... |
72.09.680 | Statewide security advisory committee. | (1) The department shall establish a statewide security advisory committee to conduct comprehensive reviews of the department's total confinement security-related policies and procedures. (2) The statewide security advisory committee shall make recommendations to the secretary regarding methods to provide consistent ap... |
72.09.682 | Multidisciplinary teams—Inmate job assignments. | (1) The department shall establish multidisciplinary teams at each total confinement correctional facility that will evaluate offenders' placements in inmate job assignments and custody promotions. The teams at each facility shall determine suitable placements based on the offender's risk, behavior, or other factors co... |
72.09.684 | Training curriculum—Safety issues—Total confinement correctional facilities. | (1) The department shall develop training curriculum regarding staff safety issues at total confinement correctional facilities. At a minimum, the training shall address the following issues: (a) Security routines; (b) Physical plant layout; (c) Offender movement and program area coverage; and (d) Situational awareness... |
72.09.686 | Body alarms and proximity cards—Study and report. | (1) The department may pilot the use of body alarms and proximity cards within available resources. (2) The department shall hire a consultant to study the feasibility of implementing a statewide system for staff safety, utilizing body alarms and proximity cards for staff within the department's total confinement corre... |
72.09.688 | Video monitoring cameras—Study and report. | (1) The department shall hire a consultant to study the deployment of video monitoring cameras within the department to make recommendations regarding statewide standards for the positioning and use of video monitoring cameras in total confinement correctional facilities and report findings and recommendations to the g... |
72.09.690 | Pepper spray—Plan for use. | (1) The department shall develop a comprehensive plan for the use of oleoresin capsicum aerosol products, commonly referred to as pepper spray, as a security measure available for staff at total confinement correctional facilities. (2) The department may initiate a pilot project, within available funds, to expand the d... |
72.09.710 | Drug offenders—Notice of release or escape. | (1) At the earliest possible date, and in no event later than ten days before release except in the event of escape or emergency furloughs as defined in RCW 72.66.010 , the department of corrections shall send written notice of parole, community custody, work release placement, furlough, or escape about a specific inma... |
72.09.712 | Prisoner escape, parole, release, community custody or work release placement, or furlough—Notification procedures. | (1) At the earliest possible date, and in no event later than thirty days before release except in the event of escape or emergency furloughs as defined in RCW 72.66.010 , the department of corrections shall send written notice of parole, release, community custody, work release placement, furlough, or escape about a s... |
72.09.713 | Prisoner escape, parole, release, community custody or work release placement, or furlough—Notice of work release placement. | (1) When a victim of a crime or the victim's next of kin requests notice under RCW 72.09.712 regarding a specific inmate, the department shall advise the requester in writing of the possibility that part of the sentence may be served by the inmate in a work release facility and instruct the requester on how to submit i... |
72.09.714 | Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Homicide, violent, and sex offenses—Rights of victims and witnesses. | The department of corrections shall provide the victims, witnesses, and next of kin in the case of a homicide and victims and witnesses involved in violent offense cases, sex offenses as defined by RCW 9.94A.030 , a domestic violence court order violation pursuant to RCW 7.105.450 , 10.99.040 , 10.99.050 , 26.09.300 , ... |
72.09.716 | Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Requests for notification. | Requests for notification under RCW 72.09.712 shall be made by sending a written request by certified mail directly to the department of corrections and giving the defendant's name, the name of the county in which the trial took place, and the month of the trial. Notification information and necessary forms shall be av... |
72.09.718 | Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Notification as additional requirement. | The notification requirements of RCW 72.09.712 are in addition to any requirements in RCW 43.43.745 or other law.
[ 2009 c 28 s 39 ; 1985 c 346 s 4 . Formerly RCW 9.94A.618 , 9.94A.158 .]
Effective date — 2009 c 28: See note following RCW 2.24.040 . |
72.09.720 | Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Consequences of failure to notify. | Civil liability shall not result from failure to provide notice required under RCW 72.09.712 through 72.09.718 , 9.94A.030 , and 43.43.745 unless the failure is the result of gross negligence.
[ 2009 c 28 s 40 ; 1985 c 346 s 7 . Formerly RCW 9.94A.620 , 9.94A.159 .]
Effective date — 2009 c 28: See note following RCW 2.... |
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