Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 72 State Institutions - Chapter 72.02 Adult Corrections

72.02.015 Powers of court or judge not impaired
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to restrict or impair the power of any court or judge having jurisdiction to pronounce sentence upon a ...

72.02.040 Secretary acting for department exercises powers and duties
The secretary of corrections acting for the department of corrections shall exercise all powers and perform all duties prescribed by law with respect to the ...

72.02.045 Superintendent's authority
The superintendent of each institution has the powers, duties, and responsibilities specified in this section. (1) Subject to the rules of the department, the superintendent ...

72.02.055 Appointment of associate superintendents
The superintendent, subject to the approval of the director of the division of prisons and the secretary, shall appoint such associate superintendents as shall be ...

72.02.100 Earnings, clothing, transportation and subsistence payments upon release of certain prisoners
Any person serving a sentence for a term of confinement in a state correctional facility for convicted felons, pursuant to court commitment, who is thereafter ...

72.02.110 Weekly payments to certain released prisoners
As state, federal or other funds are available, the secretary of corrections or his designee is authorized, in his discretion, not to provide the forty ...

72.02.150 Disturbances at state penal facilities -- Development of contingency plans -- Scope -- Local participation
The secretary or the secretary's designee shall be responsible for the preparation of contingency plans for dealing with disturbances at state penal facilities. The plans ...

72.02.160 Disturbances at state penal facilities -- Utilization of outside law enforcement personnel -- Scope
Whenever the secretary or the secretary's designee determines that due to a disturbance at a state penal facility within the jurisdiction of the department that ...

72.02.200 Reception and classification units
There shall be units known as reception and classification centers which, subject to the rules and regulations of the department, shall be charged with the ...

72.02.210 Sentence -- Commitment to reception units
Any offender convicted of an offense punishable by imprisonment, except an offender sentenced to death, shall, notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, be sentenced to ...

72.02.220 Cooperation with reception units by state agencies
The indeterminate sentence review board and other state agencies shall cooperate with the department in obtaining necessary investigative materials concerning offenders committed to the reception ...

72.02.230 Persons to be received for classification and placement
The division of prisons shall receive all persons convicted of a felony by the superior court and committed by the superior court to the reception ...

72.02.240 Secretary to determine placement -- What laws govern confinement, parole and discharge
The secretary shall determine the state correctional institution in which the offender shall be confined during the term of imprisonment. The confinement of any offender ...

72.02.250 Commitment of convicted female persons -- Procedure as to death sentences
All female persons convicted in the superior courts of a felony and sentenced to a term of confinement, shall be committed to the Washington correctional ...

72.02.260 Letters of inmates may be withheld
Whenever the superintendent of an institution withholds from mailing letters written by inmates of such institution, the superintendent shall forward such letters to the secretary ...

72.02.270 Abused victims--Murder of abuser--Notice of provisions for reduction in sentence
The department shall advise all inmates in the department's custody who were convicted of a murder that the inmate committed prior to July 23, 1989, ...

72.02.280 Motion pictures
Motion pictures unrated after November 1968 or rated X or NC-17 by the motion picture association of America shall not be shown in adult correctional ...