Revised Code of Washington
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Chapter 72.09 RCW
DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
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72.09.010Legislative intent.
72.09.015Definitions.
72.09.030Department created—Secretary.
72.09.040Transfer of functions from department of social and health services.
72.09.050Powers and duties of secretary.
72.09.055Affordable housing—Inventory of suitable property.
72.09.057Fees for reproduction, shipment, and certification of documents and records.
72.09.060Organization of department—Program for public involvement and volunteers.
72.09.070Correctional industries advisory committee—Recommendations.
72.09.080Correctional industries advisory committee—Appointment of members, chair—Compensation—Support.
72.09.090Correctional industries account—Expenditure—Profits—Appropriations.
72.09.095Transfer of funds to department of labor and industries for crime victims' compensation.
72.09.100Inmate work program—Classes of work programs—Participation—Benefits.
72.09.101Inmate work program—Administrators' duty.
72.09.104Prison work programs to operate automated data input and retrieval systems.
72.09.106Subcontracting of data input and microfilm capacities.
72.09.110Inmates' wages—Supporting cost of corrections—Crime victims' compensation and family support.
72.09.111Inmate wages—Deductions—Availability of savings—Recovery of cost of incarceration—Definition.
72.09.115Proposed new class I correctional industries work program—Threshold analysis—Business impact analysis—Public hearing—Finding.
72.09.116Information obtained under RCW 72.09.115 exempt from public disclosure.
72.09.120Distribution of list of inmate job opportunities.
72.09.130Incentive system for participation in education and work programs—Rules—Dissemination.
72.09.135Adoption of standards for correctional facilities.
72.09.190Legal services for inmates.
72.09.200Transfer of files, property, and appropriations.
72.09.210Transfer of employees.
72.09.220Employee rights under collective bargaining.
72.09.225Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors.
72.09.230Duties continued during transition.
72.09.240Reimbursement of employees for offender assaults.
72.09.251Communicable disease prevention guidelines.
72.09.260Litter cleanup programs—Requirements.
72.09.270Individual reentry plan.
72.09.275Duty to notify of process for restoration of voting rights.
72.09.280Community justice centers.
72.09.285Rental voucher list—Housing providers.
72.09.290Correctional facility siting list.
72.09.300Local law and justice council—Rules.
72.09.310Community custody violator.
72.09.311Confinement of community custody violators.
72.09.312Community custody violations—Data and information—Report to the governor and legislature.
72.09.315Court-ordered treatment—Violations—Required notifications.
72.09.320Community placement—Liability.
72.09.330Sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Registration—Notice to persons convicted of sex offenses and kidnapping offenses.
72.09.333Sex offenders—Facilities on McNeil Island.
72.09.335Sex offenders—Treatment assessment and opportunity.
72.09.337Sex offenders—Rules regarding.
72.09.340Supervision 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.
72.09.345Sex offenders—Release of information to protect public—End-of-sentence review committee—Assessment—Records access—Review, classification, referral of offenders—Issuance of narrative notices.
72.09.350Corrections mental health center—Collaborative arrangement with University of Washington—Services for offenders with mental illness—Annual report to the legislature.
72.09.370Reentry community services program—Plan for postrelease treatment and support services—Rules.
72.09.380Rule making—Medicaid—Secretary of corrections—Director of health care authority.
72.09.381Rule making—Chapter 214, Laws of 1999—Secretary of corrections—Director of health care authority.
72.09.400Work ethic camp program—Findings—Intent.
72.09.410Work ethic camp program—Generally.
72.09.450Limitation on denial of access to services and supplies—Recoupment of assessments—Collections.
72.09.460Incarcerated individual participation in education and work programs—Postsecondary degree education opportunities—Legislative intent—Priorities—Rules—Payment of costs.
72.09.465Postsecondary degree education programs.
72.09.467Postsecondary degree education programs—Reports to the legislature.
72.09.469Postsecondary degree education programs—Study.
72.09.470Contributions for cost of privileges—Standards.
72.09.480Inmate funds subject to deductions—Definitions—Exceptions—Child support collection actions.
72.09.490Policy on extended family visitation.
72.09.495Incarcerated parents—Policies to encourage family contact and engagement.
72.09.500Prohibition on weight-lifting.
72.09.510Limitation on purchasing recreational equipment and dietary supplements that increase muscle mass.
72.09.520Limitation on purchase of televisions.
72.09.530Prohibition on receipt or possession of contraband—Rules.
72.09.535Corrections identification card—Incarcerated persons.
72.09.540Inmate name change—Limitations on use—Penalty.
72.09.560Camp for alien offenders.
72.09.580Offender records and reports.
72.09.585Mental health services information—Required inquiries and disclosures—Release to court, individuals, indeterminate sentence review board, state and local agencies.
72.09.588Pregnant inmates—Midwifery or doula services—Reasonable accommodations.
72.09.590Community safety.
72.09.600Rules—Chapter 196, Laws of 1999.
72.09.620Extraordinary medical placement—Reports.
72.09.630Custodial sexual misconduct—Investigation of allegations.
72.09.650Use of force by limited authority Washington peace officers—Detention of persons.
72.09.651Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.
72.09.652Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant women and youth in custody.
72.09.670Gang involvement among incarcerated offenders—Intervention programs—Study.
72.09.680Statewide security advisory committee.
72.09.682Multidisciplinary teams—Inmate job assignments.
72.09.684Training curriculum—Safety issues—Total confinement correctional facilities.
72.09.686Body alarms and proximity cards—Study and report.
72.09.688Video monitoring cameras—Study and report.
72.09.690Pepper spray—Plan for use.
72.09.710Drug offenders—Notice of release or escape.
72.09.712Prisoner escape, parole, release, community custody or work release placement, or furlough—Notification procedures.
72.09.713Prisoner escape, parole, release, community custody or work release placement, or furlough—Notice of work release placement.
72.09.714Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Homicide, violent, and sex offenses—Rights of victims and witnesses.
72.09.716Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Requests for notification.
72.09.718Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Notification as additional requirement.
72.09.720Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Consequences of failure to notify.
72.09.730Schools—Notice to designated recipient of offender release.
72.09.740Reimbursement for state patrol expenses towards water line construction for Shelton academy.
72.09.745Security threat groups—Information collection.
72.09.750Access to reentry programs and services for wrongly convicted persons.
72.09.755Department of corrections—Use of screening and assessment process.
72.09.760Facility commissary program—Access.
72.09.765Inmate access to telecommunication services—Contracting—Reporting.
72.09.770Unexpected fatality review—Records—Discovery.
72.09.780Abortion medications—Practice of pharmacy and wholesale distribution.
72.09.900Effective date—1981 c 136.
72.09.901Short title.
72.09.902Construction—1981 c 136.
72.09.903Savings—1981 c 136.
72.09.904Construction—1999 c 196.
72.09.905Short title—1999 c 196.
72.09.906Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.
NOTES:
Data provided for statewide automated victim information and notification system, when required: RCW 36.28A.0402.
Disturbances at state penal facilities
development of contingency plans—Scope—Local participation: RCW 72.02.150.
reimbursement to cities and counties for certain expenses incurred: RCW 72.72.050, 72.72.060.
utilization of outside law enforcement personnel—Scope: RCW 72.02.160.
Interagency agreement on prenatal substance exposure programs: RCW 71.24.610.