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• Wash. inmate attacks deputy in court, gets TASERed

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  The inmate was TASERed twice after going for the deputy's gun in the scuffle

• Wash. DOC denies CO's racism allegations after lawsuit

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  The officer alleges he’s been passed up for numerous training and promotion opportunities, and he remains concerned about losing his job amid health problems caused by mistreatment

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• Lawsuit: Wash. DOC denies medical care

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  Lawsuit says hundreds of incarcerated people are regularly denied needed medical care for illnesses such as diabetes or orthopedic issues that involve ongoing pain

• Advocacy group seeks efforts to keep battle-scarred veterans off death row

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  Researchers from the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington concluded that judges, prosecutors and even the White House sometimes fail to appreciate the effect that post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental issues can cause for returning veterans

• Wash. county, city struggle to fill jail jobs

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  For at least a year, the Yakima Police Department has advertised three times to fill a single vacancy for a corrections officer

• Justices hear arguments over life sentences for teenagers

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  People serving life terms for murders they committed as teenagers were looking to the Supreme Court Tuesday for signals about whether they will have a chance to seek their freedom

• Drug inmates with long rap sheets among those freed early

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  About 6,000 inmates are due to be freed from custody in the coming month

• House bill would cut prison time for some offenders

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  Republicans and Democrats have come together to propose major legislation that would reduce prison sentences for some nonviolent drug offenders

• Thousands of drug inmates approved for early prison release

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  Drug criminals once described by prosecutors as unrepentant repeat offenders are among those poised to benefit from new sentencing guidelines that are shrinking punishments for thousands of federal prisoners

• Justices reject appeal from inmate over juror's racial slur

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  Kenneth Fults has been trying for 10 years to get a court to consider evidence that racial bias deprived him of a fair trial

• Justices let stand death sentence for 72-year-old Georgian

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  The justices left in place the death sentence for Brandon Astor Jones, 72, who was convicted of killing a convenience store clerk in suburban Atlanta in 1979

• Proposed care center targets mental illness and more in Wash.

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  The proposed Community Care Center will open sometime in 2016

• Hundreds of Wash. inmates slip away en route to halfway houses

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  Some of the inmates who absconded from 2012 through 2014 include were reported by prison officials to have histories of violence and misconduct while in prison

• Senators reach deal on criminal justice overhaul

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  A bipartisan group of senators has reached a long-sought agreement on changes to the criminal justice system that would reduce prison sentences for certain non-violent drug offenders

• Wash. corrections secretary quits after 4 years on job

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  The department says he will be leaving his state job on Oct. 16 for a job in the private sector

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