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Washington state prison libraries could lose staffing, resources under federal cuts The Trump administration proposed cutting $3.9 million in library grants. To stream KREM on your phone, you need ...
Federal funds also support 32 partially or fully funded Library Development staff, staff at Washington Talking Book and Braille Library in Seattle, and prison and hospital library staff.
Washington state’s so-called “sanctuary law” is in the crosshairs of elected officials, because of how it limits local law enforcement from working with federal immigration enforcement. But ...
According to the U.S Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington, David Velasquez Jr. was sentenced to 200 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl.
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN. WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal Bureau of Prisons must continue providing hormone therapy and social accommodations to hundreds of transgender inmates following an executive ...
OLYMPIA, Wash. — For more than 50 years, the state has operated libraries inside state prisons, relying mostly on federal grant funding. That funding, $3.9 million, could be cut by the Trump ...