Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 72 State Institutions - Chapter 72.09 Department Of Corrections

72.09.010 Legislative intent
It is the intent of the legislature to establish a comprehensive system of corrections for convicted law violators within the state of Washington to accomplish ...

72.09.015 Definitions
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter. (1) "Adult basic education" means education or instruction designed to achieve general competence of skills in ...

72.09.030 Department created -- Secretary
There is created a department of state government to be known as the department of corrections. The executive head of the department shall be the ...

72.09.040 Transfer of functions from department of social and health services
All powers, duties, and functions assigned to the secretary of social and health services and to the department of social and health services relating to ...

72.09.050 Powers and duties of secretary
The secretary shall manage the department of corrections and shall be responsible for the administration of adult correctional programs, including but not limited to the ...

72.09.055 Affordable housing--Inventory of suitable property
(1) The department shall identify and catalog real property that is no longer required for department purposes and is suitable for the development of affordable ...

72.09.057 Fees for reproduction, shipment, and certification of documents and records
The department may charge reasonable fees for the reproduction, shipment, and certification of documents, records, and other materials in the files of the department.[1995 c ...

72.09.060 Organization of department -- Program for public involvement and volunteers
The department of corrections may be organized into such divisions or offices as the secretary may determine, but shall include divisions for (1) correctional industries, ...

72.09.070 Correctional industries board of directors -- Duties
(1) There is created a correctional industries board of directors which shall have the composition provided in RCW 72.09.080. (2) Consistent with general department of ...

72.09.080 Correctional industries board of directors -- Appointment of members, chair -- Compensation -- Support
(1) The correctional industries board of directors shall consist of nine voting members, appointed by the governor. Each member shall serve a three-year staggered term. ...

72.09.090 Correctional industries account -- Expenditure -- Profits -- Appropriations
The correctional industries account is established in the state treasury. The department of corrections shall deposit in the account all moneys collected and all profits ...

72.09.095 Transfer of funds to department of labor and industries for crime victims' compensation
Each year the department shall transfer twenty-five percent of the total annual revenues and receipts received in each institutional betterment fund subaccount to the department ...

72.09.100 Inmate work program -- Classes of work programs -- Participation -- Benefits
It is the intent of the legislature to vest in the department the power to provide for a comprehensive inmate work program and to remove ...

72.09.101 Inmate work program -- Administrators' duty
Administrators of work programs described in RCW 72.09.100 shall ensure that no inmate convicted of a sex offense as defined in chapter 9A.44 RCW obtains ...

72.09.104 Prison work programs to operate automated data input and retrieval systems
The department of general administration and the department of corrections shall implement prison work programs to operate automated data input and retrieval systems for appropriate ...

72.09.106 Subcontracting of data input and microfilm capacities
Class II correctional industries may subcontract its data input and microfilm capacities to firms from the private sector. Inmates employed under these subcontracts will be ...

72.09.110 Inmates' wages -- Supporting cost of corrections -- Crime victims' compensation and family support
All inmates working in prison industries shall participate in the cost of corrections, including costs to develop and implement correctional industries programs, by means of ...

72.09.111 Inmate wages--Deductions--Availability of savings--Employment goals -- Recovery of cost of incarceration
(1) The secretary shall deduct taxes and legal financial obligations from the gross wages, gratuities, or workers' compensation benefits payable directly to the inmate under ...

72.09.115 Proposed new class I correctional industries work program -- Threshold analysis -- Business impact analysis -- Public hearing -- Finding
(1) The department must prepare a threshold analysis for any proposed new class I correctional industries work program or the significant expansion of an existing ...

72.09.116 Information obtained under RCW 72.09.115 exempt from public disclosure
All records, documents, data, and other materials obtained under the requirements of RCW 72.09.115 from an existing correctional industries class I work program participant or ...

72.09.120 Distribution of list of inmate job opportunities
In order to assist inmates in finding work within prison industries, the department shall periodically prepare and distribute a list of prison industries' job opportunities, ...

72.09.130 Incentive system for participation in education and work programs -- Rules -- Dissemination
(1) The department shall adopt, by rule, a system that clearly links an inmate's behavior and participation in available education and work programs with the ...

72.09.135 Adoption of standards for correctional facilities
The department of corrections shall, no later than July 1, 1987, adopt standards for the operation of state adult correctional facilities. These standards shall be ...

72.09.160 Corrections standards board -- Responsibilities, powers, support
Notes: Reviser's note: *(1) The corrections standards board no longer exists. See 1987 c 462 § 21. (2) RCW 72.09.160 was amended by 1987 c ...

72.09.190 Legal services for inmates
(1) It is the intent of the legislature that reasonable legal services be provided to persons committed to the custody of the department of corrections. ...

72.09.200 Transfer of files, property, and appropriations
All reports, documents, surveys, books, records, files, papers, and other writings in the possession of the department of social and health services pertaining to the ...

72.09.210 Transfer of employees
All employees of the department of social and health services who are directly employed in connection with the exercise of the powers and performance of ...

72.09.220 Employee rights under collective bargaining
Nothing contained in RCW 72.09.010 through 72.09.190, 72.09.901, and section 13, chapter 136, Laws of 1981 may be construed to downgrade any rights of any ...

72.09.225 Sexual misconduct by state employees, contractors
(1) When the secretary has reasonable cause to believe that sexual intercourse or sexual contact between an employee and an inmate has occurred, notwithstanding any ...

72.09.230 Duties continued during transition
All state officials required to maintain contact with or provide services to the department or secretary of social and health services relating to adult corrections ...

72.09.240 Reimbursement of employees for offender assaults
(1) In recognition of prison overcrowding and the hazardous nature of employment in state correctional institutions and offices, the legislature hereby provides a supplementary program ...

72.09.251 Communicable disease prevention guidelines
(1) The department shall develop and implement policies and procedures for the uniform distribution of communicable disease prevention guidelines to all corrections staff who, in ...

72.09.260 Litter cleanup programs -- Requirements
(1) The department shall assist local units of government in establishing community restitution programs for litter cleanup. Community restitution litter cleanup programs must include the ...

72.09.270 Individual reentry plan
(1) The department of corrections shall develop an individual reentry plan as defined in RCW 72.09.015 for every offender who is committed to the jurisdiction ...

72.09.280 Community justice centers
(1) The department shall continue to establish community justice centers throughout the state for the purpose of providing comprehensive services and monitoring for offenders who ...

72.09.290 Correctional facility siting list
(1) No later than July 1, 2007, and every biennium thereafter starting with the biennium beginning July 1, 2009, the department shall prepare a list ...

72.09.300 Local law and justice council -- Rules
(1) Every county legislative authority shall by resolution or ordinance establish a local law and justice council. The county legislative authority shall determine the size ...

72.09.310 Community custody violator
An inmate in community custody who willfully discontinues making himself or herself available to the department for supervision by making his or her whereabouts unknown ...

72.09.311 Confinement of community custody violators
(1) The department of corrections shall conduct an analysis of the necessary capacity throughout the state to appropriately confine offenders who violate community custody and ...

72.09.315 Court-ordered treatment -- Violations -- Required notifications
(1) When an offender is under court-ordered mental health or chemical dependency treatment in the community and the supervision of the department of corrections, and ...

72.09.320 Community placement -- Liability
The state of Washington, the department and its employees, community corrections officers, their staff, and volunteers who assist community corrections officers in the community placement ...

72.09.330 Sex offenders and kidnapping offenders -- Registration -- Notice to persons convicted of sex offenses and kidnapping offenses
(1) The department shall provide written notification to an inmate convicted of a sex offense or kidnapping offense of the registration requirements of RCW 9A.44.130 ...

72.09.333 Sex offenders--Facilities on McNeil Island
The secretary is authorized to operate a correctional facility on McNeil Island for the confinement of sex offenders and other offenders sentenced by the courts, ...

72.09.335 Sex offenders--Treatment opportunity
The department shall provide offenders sentenced under *RCW 9.94A.712 with the opportunity for sex offender treatment during incarceration.[2001 2nd sp.s. c 12 § 305.]Notes: *Reviser's ...

72.09.337 Sex offenders--Rules regarding
The secretary of corrections, the secretary of social and health services, and the indeterminate sentence review board may adopt rules to implement chapter 12, Laws ...

72.09.340 Supervision 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 -- Supervised visitation considerations
(1) In making all discretionary decisions regarding release plans for and supervision of sex offenders, the department shall set priorities and make decisions based on ...

72.09.345 Sex offenders -- Release of information to protect public -- End-of-sentence review committee -- Assessment -- Records access -- Review, classification, referral of offenders -- Issuance of narrative notices
(1) In addition to any other information required to be released under this chapter, the department is authorized, pursuant to RCW 4.24.550, to release relevant ...

72.09.350 Corrections mental health center--Collaborative arrangement with University of Washington--Services for mentally ill offenders--Annual report to the legislature
(1) The department of corrections and the University of Washington may enter into a collaborative arrangement to provide improved services for mentally ill offenders with ...

72.09.370 Dangerous mentally ill offenders -- Plan for postrelease treatment and support services -- Rules
(1) The secretary shall identify offenders in confinement or partial confinement who: (a) Are reasonably believed to be dangerous to themselves or others; and (b) ...

72.09.380 Rule making -- Medicaid -- Secretary of corrections -- Secretary of social and health services
The secretaries of the department of corrections and the department of social and health services shall adopt rules and develop working agreements which will ensure ...

72.09.381 Rule making -- Chapter 214, Laws of 1999 -- Secretary of corrections -- Secretary of social and health services
The secretary of the department of corrections and the secretary of the department of social and health services shall, in consultation with the regional support ...

72.09.400 Work ethic camp program--Findings--Intent
The legislature finds that high crime rates and a heightened sense of vulnerability have led to increased public pressure on criminal justice officials to increase ...

72.09.410 Work ethic camp program--Generally
The department of corrections shall establish one work ethic camp. The secretary shall locate the work ethic camp within an already existing department compound or ...

72.09.450 Limitation on denial of access to services and supplies -- Recoupment of assessments -- Collections
(1) An inmate shall not be denied access to services or supplies required by state or federal law solely on the basis of his or ...

72.09.460 Inmate participation in education and work programs -- Legislative intent -- Priorities -- Rules -- Payment of costs
(1) The legislature intends that all inmates be required to participate in department-approved education programs, work programs, or both, unless exempted as specifically provided in ...

72.09.465 Postsecondary education degree programs
(1) The department shall, if funds are appropriated for the specific purpose, implement postsecondary education degree programs within state correctional institutions, including the state correctional ...

72.09.470 Inmate contributions for cost of privileges -- Standards
To the greatest extent practical, all inmates shall contribute to the cost of privileges. The department shall establish standards by which inmates shall contribute a ...

72.09.480 Inmate funds subject to deductions -- Definitions -- Exceptions -- Child support collection actions
(1) Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the definitions in this section apply to this section. (a) "Cost of incarceration" means the cost of providing ...

72.09.490 Policy on extended family visitation
(1) The department shall establish a uniform policy on the privilege of extended family visitation. Not fewer than sixty days before making any changes in ...

72.09.495 Incarcerated parents -- Policies to encourage family contact and engagement
(1) The secretary of corrections shall review current department policies and assess the following: (a) The impact of existing policies on the ability of offenders ...

72.09.500 Prohibition on weight-lifting
An inmate found by the superintendent in the institution in which the inmate is incarcerated to have committed an aggravated assault against another person, under ...

72.09.510 Limitation on purchasing recreational equipment and dietary supplements that increase muscle mass
Purchases of recreational equipment following June 15, 1995, shall be cost-effective and, to the extent possible, minimize an inmate's ability to substantially increase muscle mass. ...

72.09.520 Limitation on purchase of televisions
No inmate may acquire or possess a television for personal use for at least sixty days following completion of his or her intake and evaluation ...

72.09.530 Prohibition on receipt or possession of contraband -- Rules
The secretary shall, in consultation with the attorney general, adopt by rule a uniform policy that prohibits receipt or possession of anything that is determined ...

72.09.540 Inmate name change -- Limitations on use -- Penalty
The department may require an offender who obtains an order under RCW 4.24.130 to use the name under which he or she was committed to ...

72.09.560 Camp for alien offenders
The department is authorized to establish a camp for alien offenders and shall be ready to assign offenders to the camp not later than January ...

72.09.580 Offender records and reports
Except as specifically prohibited by other law, and for purposes of determining, modifying, or monitoring compliance with conditions of community custody, community placement, or community ...

72.09.585 Mental health services information -- Required inquiries and disclosures -- Release to court, individuals, indeterminate sentence review board, state and local agencies
(1) When the department is determining an offender's risk management level, the department shall inquire of the offender and shall be told whether the offender ...

72.09.590 Community safety
To the extent practicable, the department shall deploy community corrections staff on the basis of geographic areas in which offenders under the department's jurisdiction are ...

72.09.600 Rules -- Chapter 196, Laws of 1999
The secretary of corrections may adopt rules to implement sections 1 through 13, chapter 196, Laws of 1999.[1999 c 196 § 14.]Notes: Construction -- Short ...

72.09.610 Community custody study
(1) The Washington state institute for public policy shall conduct a study of the effect of the use of community custody under chapter 196, Laws ...

72.09.620 Extraordinary medical placement -- Reports
The secretary shall report annually to the legislature on the number of offenders considered for an extraordinary medical placement, the number of offenders who were ...

72.09.630 Custodial sexual misconduct -- Investigation of allegations
The department shall investigate any alleged violations of RCW 9A.44.160 or 9A.44.170 that are alleged to have been committed by an employee or contract personnel ...

72.09.650 Use of force by limited authority Washington peace officers--Detention of persons
(1) An employee of the department who is a limited authority Washington peace officer under RCW 10.93.020 may use reasonable force to detain, search, or ...

72.09.660 Therapeutic drug and alcohol treatment -- Additional placements
(1) Through June 30, 2010, it is the intent of the legislature to provide one hundred additional placements for therapeutic drug and alcohol treatment in ...

72.09.670 Gang involvement among incarcerated offenders -- Intervention programs -- Study
(1) The department shall study and establish best practices to reduce gang involvement and recruitment among incarcerated offenders. The department shall study and make recommendations ...

72.09.710 Drug offenders -- Notice of release or escape
(1) At the earliest possible date, and in no event later than ten days before release except in the event of escape or emergency furloughs ...

72.09.712 Prisoner escape, parole, release, community custody or work release placement, or furlough -- Notification procedures
(1) At the earliest possible date, and in no event later than thirty days before release except in the event of escape or emergency furloughs ...

72.09.714 Prisoner escape, release, or furlough -- Homicide, violent, and sex offenses -- Rights of victims and witnesses
The department of corrections shall provide the victims and next of kin in the case of a homicide and witnesses involved in violent offense cases ...

72.09.716 Prisoner escape, release, or furlough -- Requests for notification
Requests for notification under *RCW 9.94A.612 shall be made by sending a written request by certified mail directly to the department of corrections and giving ...

72.09.718 Prisoner escape, release, or furlough -- Notification as additional requirement
The notification requirements of *RCW 9.94A.612 are in addition to any requirements in RCW 43.43.745 or other law.[1985 c 346 § 4. Formerly RCW 9.94A.618, ...

72.09.720 Prisoner escape, release, or furlough -- Consequences of failure to notify
Civil liability shall not result from failure to provide notice required under RCW *9.94A.612 through 9.94A.618,9.94A.030 , and 43.43.745 unless the failure is the result ...

72.09.800 Comprehensive plan for character-building residential services in prisons -- Establishment of oversight committee
(1) The department of corrections shall establish an oversight committee to develop a comprehensive interagency plan to provide voluntary, nondenominational moral and character-building residential services ...

72.09.900 Effective date -- 1981 c 136
This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, the support of the state government and its existing public ...

72.09.901 Short title
This chapter may be known and cited as the corrections reform act of 1981.[1981 c 136 § 1.] ...

72.09.902 Construction -- 1981 c 136
All references to the department or secretary of social and health services in other chapters of the Revised Code of Washington shall be construed as ...

72.09.903 Savings -- 1981 c 136
All rules and all pending business before the secretary of social and health services and the department of social and health services pertaining to matters ...

72.09.904 Construction -- 1999 c 196
Nothing in chapter 196, Laws of 1999 shall be construed to create an immunity or defense from liability for personal injury or wrongful death based ...

72.09.905 Short title -- 1999 c 196
This act may be known and cited as the offender accountability act.[1999 c 196 § 18.] ...