WaLeg Day 1: Senators grill prisons chief
OLYMPIA – A Senate committee questions Department of Corrections on long-running mistake that led to thousands of inmates being released early.
OLYMPIA – A Senate committee questions Department of Corrections on long-running mistake that led to thousands of inmates being released early.
Lawmakers were urged to work together to improve public schools, mental health programs and to pay for last year’s emergencies, and think of the state as a whole, not just the booming Puget Sound.
OLYMPIA -- A Spokane Valley legislator was part of a fact-finding a trip to the wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon over the weekend at the request of legislators from that state.
Legislature opens at noon with standard ceremony. Today's committee meetings include hearing on Department of Corrections SNAFU that let inmates out early.
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