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Wash. state welcomes back private jobs in prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

August 25, 2008 Wash. state welcomes back private jobs in prisons Seattle Post Intelligencer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TACOMA, Wash. -- More than four years after the state Supreme Court ruled that private companies could not operate out of state prisons, businesses are being to asked to give it a go again. A recruiter has been hired by the state Department of Corrections to contact chambers of commerce seeking interest for the Class I Correctional Industries program. A similar program was shut down after the state's high court ruled in May 2004 that the use of inmates by some companies violated the state constitution. At the time, the program involved about 300 inmates. Last November voters approved a constitutional amendment to allow contracting with private companies willing to hire inmates at some of Washington's 17 prisons...continue to full post

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