Bill to ban private prisons in Washington state heads to Inslee’s desk
A bill that would ban private detention facilities in Washington state — outlawing the renewal of a contract between ICE and a private company that runs a controversial detention center in Tacoma — is headed to Gov. Jay Inslee’s desk. Continue reading at The Bellingham Herald.
Every WA state prisoner should get a COVID-19 vaccine immediately, lawsuit demands
Three people incarcerated in Washington prisons, including someone at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor, filed the lawsuit Monday in Thurston County Superior Court. They are seeking certification of their petition as a class action, with the class being everyone in the state Department of Correction’s custody. Continue reading at The Olympian. (AP)
Is Washington State Taking Too Many Children From Their Parents? Movement Seeks to Overhaul Foster Care Esther Taylor remembers everyone tensing up. She was 8, and didn’t understand everything going on. But she knew a social worker had confronted her mom about the way Taylor and her siblings were living, in a house with faulty wiring and a rat problem, ostensibly home-schooled but not taught frequently of late. And she could see her mom getting upset. Continue reading at The Centralia Chronicle.
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