Want out of prison early? Navigate the drug treatment labyrinth.
Dept. of Corrections says people who tested positive for illicit substances decades ago still require treatment if they want early release. Some of them don't even have a history of addiction, but the prison's behavioral health contractor places the inmates into their treatment program anyway.
Editor’s note: Kevin Light-Roth is an incarcerated freelance journalist. He and RANGE’s Aaron Hedge partnered on this story in order to interview people on both sides of the bars.
As part of its lobbying efforts, The Washington Coalition for Police Accountability convinced a lawmaker to alter a bill the organization believes would weaken law enforcement accountability.
GEO Transit, which carts immigrants from Spokane to Tacoma for deportation, had its lawyer call the requester to make sure ‘you’re not gonna hurt my peeps.’
Many organizers asking the state for police justice reforms are based in Spokane — home to some of the highest rates of police violence in the US — and want stronger state oversight of local agencies.
ICE protesters facing federal charges made a hard choice, but some fear a chilling effect: ‘They want to frighten people so they are afraid to use their First Amendment rights.’
