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                            SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5186

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State of Washington              54th Legislature             1995 Regular Session

By Senate Committee on Human Services & Corrections (originally sponsored by Senators Roach, Smith and Rasmussen)

Read first time 02/24/95.

Requiring the next confinement facility constructed by the department of social and health services to be for youthful offenders.

     AN ACT Relating to terms of confinement of juvenile offenders who reach eighteen years of age; and adding a new section to chapter 13.40 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.  A new section is added to chapter 13.40 RCW to read as follows:

     The planning, design, and construction of the next confinement facility for juvenile offenders under the jurisdiction of the department of social and health services shall be for youthful offenders.  For purposes of this section, youthful offenders mean juvenile offenders who reach the age of eighteen prior to completing their term of confinement.  This section shall not apply to the remodel or rehabilitation of any facility in use as of the effective date of this act.

     The facility shall be planned, designed, constructed, and operated to achieve at least the following goals:

     (1) Provide levels of custody, staffing, and services appropriate to the age and classification of the youthful offenders, recognizing that offenders of the same age and with similar classifications are currently confined in adult correctional facilities under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections; and

     (2) Provide programming commensurate with the age, classification, and rehabilitative potential of the youthful offenders, recognizing that youthful offenders may, in many ways, have more similarities to adult offenders who are confined under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections than to juvenile offenders.

     The department shall report to the legislature every three months beginning September 1995, and continuing until July 1997, on the progress of the facility plan and design.

     This section shall expire July 1, 2001.

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