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Chapter 72.09 RCW

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

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HTMLPDF 72.09.010Legislative intent.
HTMLPDF 72.09.015Definitions.
HTMLPDF 72.09.030Department created—Secretary.
HTMLPDF 72.09.040Transfer of functions from department of social and health services.
HTMLPDF 72.09.050Powers and duties of secretary.
HTMLPDF 72.09.055Affordable housing—Inventory of suitable property.
HTMLPDF 72.09.057Fees for reproduction, shipment, and certification of documents and records.
HTMLPDF 72.09.060Organization of department—Program for public involvement and volunteers.
HTMLPDF 72.09.070Correctional industries advisory committee—Recommendations.
HTMLPDF 72.09.080Correctional industries advisory committee—Appointment of members, chair—Compensation—Support.
HTMLPDF 72.09.090Correctional industries account—Expenditure—Profits—Appropriations.
HTMLPDF 72.09.092Institutional welfare account.
HTMLPDF 72.09.093Institutional welfare account—Incarcerated individual betterment fund must be deposited.
HTMLPDF 72.09.095Institutional welfare account—Transfer of funds to department of labor and industries for crime victims' compensation.
HTMLPDF 72.09.100Inmate work program—Classes of work programs—Participation—Benefits.
HTMLPDF 72.09.101Inmate work program—Administrators' duty.
HTMLPDF 72.09.104Prison work programs to operate automated data input and retrieval systems.
HTMLPDF 72.09.106Subcontracting of data input and microfilm capacities.
HTMLPDF 72.09.110Inmates' wages—Supporting cost of corrections—Crime victims' compensation and family support.
HTMLPDF 72.09.111Inmate wages—Deductions—Availability of savings—Recovery of cost of incarceration—Definition.
HTMLPDF 72.09.115Proposed new class I correctional industries work program—Threshold analysis—Business impact analysis—Public hearing—Finding.
HTMLPDF 72.09.116Information obtained under RCW 72.09.115 exempt from public disclosure.
HTMLPDF 72.09.120Distribution of list of inmate job opportunities.
HTMLPDF 72.09.130Incentive system for participation in education and work programs—Rules—Dissemination.
HTMLPDF 72.09.135Adoption of standards for correctional facilities.
HTMLPDF 72.09.190Legal services for inmates.
HTMLPDF 72.09.200Transfer of files, property, and appropriations.
HTMLPDF 72.09.210Transfer of employees.
HTMLPDF 72.09.220Employee rights under collective bargaining.
HTMLPDF 72.09.225Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors.
HTMLPDF 72.09.230Duties continued during transition.
HTMLPDF 72.09.240Reimbursement of employees for offender assaults.
HTMLPDF 72.09.251Communicable disease prevention guidelines.
HTMLPDF 72.09.260Litter cleanup programs—Requirements.
HTMLPDF 72.09.270Individual reentry plan.
HTMLPDF 72.09.275Duty to notify of process for restoration of voting rights.
HTMLPDF 72.09.280Community justice centers.
HTMLPDF 72.09.285Rental voucher list—Housing providers.
HTMLPDF 72.09.290Correctional facility siting list.
HTMLPDF 72.09.300Local law and justice council—Rules.
HTMLPDF 72.09.310Community custody violator.
HTMLPDF 72.09.311Confinement of community custody violators.
HTMLPDF 72.09.312Community custody violations—Data and information—Report to the governor and legislature.
HTMLPDF 72.09.315Court-ordered treatment—Violations—Required notifications.
HTMLPDF 72.09.320Community placement—Liability.
HTMLPDF 72.09.330Sex offenders and kidnapping offenders—Registration—Notice to persons convicted of sex offenses and kidnapping offenses.
HTMLPDF 72.09.333Sex offenders—Facilities on McNeil Island.
HTMLPDF 72.09.335Sex offenders—Treatment assessment and opportunity.
HTMLPDF 72.09.337Sex offenders—Rules regarding.
HTMLPDF 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.
HTMLPDF 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.
HTMLPDF 72.09.350Corrections mental health center—Collaborative arrangement with University of Washington—Services for offenders with mental illness—Annual report to the legislature.
HTMLPDF 72.09.355Provision of behavioral health services—Inspection—Collaboration with department of health.
HTMLPDF 72.09.370Reentry community services program—Plan for postrelease treatment and support services—Rules.
HTMLPDF 72.09.380Rule making—Medicaid—Secretary of corrections—Director of health care authority.
HTMLPDF 72.09.381Rule making—Chapter 214, Laws of 1999—Secretary of corrections—Director of health care authority.
HTMLPDF 72.09.400Work ethic camp program—Findings—Intent.
HTMLPDF 72.09.410Work ethic camp program—Generally.
HTMLPDF 72.09.450Limitation on denial of access to services and supplies—Recoupment of assessments—Collections.
HTMLPDF 72.09.460Incarcerated individual participation in education and work programs—Postsecondary degree education opportunities—Legislative intent—Priorities—Rules—Payment of costs.
HTMLPDF 72.09.465Postsecondary degree education programs.
HTMLPDF 72.09.467Postsecondary degree education programs—Reports to the legislature.
HTMLPDF 72.09.469Postsecondary degree education programs—Study.
HTMLPDF 72.09.470Contributions for cost of privileges—Standards.
HTMLPDF 72.09.475Inmate institutional account—Indigency—Adjusted dollar amount.
HTMLPDF 72.09.480Inmate funds subject to deductions—Definitions—Exceptions—Child support collection actions.
HTMLPDF 72.09.490Policy on extended family visitation.
HTMLPDF 72.09.495Incarcerated parents—Policies to encourage family contact and engagement.
HTMLPDF 72.09.500Prohibition on weight-lifting.
HTMLPDF 72.09.510Limitation on purchasing recreational equipment and dietary supplements that increase muscle mass.
HTMLPDF 72.09.520Limitation on purchase of televisions.
HTMLPDF 72.09.530Prohibition on receipt or possession of contraband—Rules.
HTMLPDF 72.09.535Corrections identification card—Incarcerated persons.
HTMLPDF 72.09.540Inmate name change—Limitations on use—Penalty.
HTMLPDF 72.09.560Camp for noncitizen offenders.
HTMLPDF 72.09.580Offender records and reports.
HTMLPDF 72.09.585Mental health services information—Required inquiries and disclosures—Release to court, individuals, indeterminate sentence review board, state and local agencies.
HTMLPDF 72.09.588Incarcerated individuals who are pregnant—Midwifery or doula services—Reasonable accommodations.
HTMLPDF 72.09.590Community safety.
HTMLPDF 72.09.600Rules—Chapter 196, Laws of 1999.
HTMLPDF 72.09.620Extraordinary medical placement—Reports.
HTMLPDF 72.09.630Custodial sexual misconduct—Investigation of allegations.
HTMLPDF 72.09.650Use of force by limited authority Washington peace officers—Detention of persons.
HTMLPDF 72.09.651Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Allowed in extraordinary circumstances.
HTMLPDF 72.09.652Use of restraints on pregnant women or youth in custody—Provision of information to staff and pregnant women and youth in custody.
HTMLPDF 72.09.670Gang involvement among incarcerated offenders—Intervention programs—Study.
HTMLPDF 72.09.680Statewide security advisory committee.
HTMLPDF 72.09.682Multidisciplinary teams—Inmate job assignments.
HTMLPDF 72.09.684Training curriculum—Safety issues—Total confinement correctional facilities.
HTMLPDF 72.09.686Body alarms and proximity cards—Study and report.
HTMLPDF 72.09.688Video monitoring cameras—Study and report.
HTMLPDF 72.09.690Pepper spray—Plan for use.
HTMLPDF 72.09.710Drug offenders—Notice of release or escape.
HTMLPDF 72.09.712Prisoner escape, parole, release, community custody or work release placement, or furlough—Notification procedures.
HTMLPDF 72.09.713Prisoner escape, parole, release, community custody or work release placement, or furlough—Notice of work release placement.
HTMLPDF 72.09.714Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Homicide, violent, and sex offenses—Rights of victims and witnesses.
HTMLPDF 72.09.716Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Requests for notification.
HTMLPDF 72.09.718Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Notification as additional requirement.
HTMLPDF 72.09.720Prisoner escape, release, or furlough—Consequences of failure to notify.
HTMLPDF 72.09.730Schools—Notice to designated recipient of offender release.
HTMLPDF 72.09.740Reimbursement for state patrol expenses towards water line construction for Shelton academy.
HTMLPDF 72.09.745Security threat groups—Information collection.
HTMLPDF 72.09.750Access to reentry programs and services for wrongly convicted persons.
HTMLPDF 72.09.755Department of corrections—Use of screening and assessment process.
HTMLPDF 72.09.760Facility commissary program—Access.
HTMLPDF 72.09.765Inmate access to telecommunication services—Contracting—Reporting.
HTMLPDF 72.09.770Unexpected fatality review—Records—Discovery.
HTMLPDF 72.09.780Abortion medications—Practice of pharmacy and wholesale distribution.
HTMLPDF 72.09.900Effective date—1981 c 136.
HTMLPDF 72.09.901Short title.
HTMLPDF 72.09.902Construction—1981 c 136.
HTMLPDF 72.09.903Savings—1981 c 136.
HTMLPDF 72.09.904Construction—1999 c 196.
HTMLPDF 72.09.905Short title—1999 c 196.
HTMLPDF 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.