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                    SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 2457

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State of Washington      56th Legislature     2000 Regular Session

By House Committee on Criminal Justice & Corrections (originally sponsored by Representatives Cairnes, Ballasiotes, Koster, B. Chandler, Bush, Lisk, Schoesler, Talcott, Radcliff, Pflug and Benson)

Read first time 01/26/2000.  Referred to Committee on .

Narrowing reasons for escorted leave by prisoners.

    AN ACT Relating to escorted leaves of absence for prison inmates; and amending RCW 72.01.370.

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

    Sec. 1.  RCW 72.01.370 and 1992 c 7 s 53 are each amended to read as follows:

    The superintendent of any state correctional facility may, subject to the approval of the secretary and under RCW 72.01.375, grant escorted leaves of absence to inmates confined in such institutions to:

    (1) Go to the bedside of the inmate's wife, husband, child, mother or father, or other member of the inmate's immediate family who is seriously ill;

    (2) Attend the funeral of a member of the inmate's immediate family listed in subsection (1) of this section;

    (3) Participate in ((athletic contests)) prerelease planning;

    (4) Perform work in connection with the industrial, educational, or agricultural programs of the department;

    (5) Receive necessary medical or dental care which is not available in the institution; and

    (6) Participate as a volunteer in community service work projects which are approved by the superintendent, but only inmates who are nonviolent offenders may participate in these projects.  Such community service work projects shall only be instigated at the request of a local community.

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