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RCW 72.64.010

Useful employment of prisoners—Contract system barred.

The secretary shall have the power and it shall be his or her duty to provide for the useful employment of prisoners in the adult correctional institutions: PROVIDED, That no prisoners shall be employed in what is known as the contract system of labor.
[ 2012 c 117 s 478; 1979 c 141 s 265; 1959 c 28 s 72.64.010. Prior: 1943 c 175 s 1; Rem. Supp. 1943 s 10279-1. Formerly RCW 72.08.220.]