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While Washington’s system has been strained for years, state officials and disability rights advocates say it effectively ground to a halt during the…
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On Feb. 26, 2014, staff booked Shannon Jefferson into the Whatcom County Jail for a probation violation and failing to appear in court on a fourth degree…
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The practice of locking up people who are chronically sick, mentally ill or drug addicted in under-resourced city, county and regional jails in Washington…
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Four years ago this month, 25-year-old Keaton Farris died naked, dehydrated and malnourished on the floor of an isolation cell in the Island County Jail…
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After 40 days in the Josephine County Jail, Janelle Marie Butterfield looped a white sheet around her neck and tied the other end to the metal bunk bed in…
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When Jeremy Lavender came back from a 15-month Army deployment in Iraq to live with his wife and new baby, “he wasn’t the same person,” according to…
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Two people who allegedly placed online ads to sell elephant ivory carvings are the first to be charged under wildlife trafficking laws passed by Pacific…
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In 2012, Michael Saffioti turned himself in on a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge. The next day at the Snohomish County Jail in Everett,…
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A legal case involving the Yakama Nation and Washington state taxes that started in 2013 came to an end Tuesday with a U.S. Supreme Court decision. In a…
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Prenters Broughton was always getting into trouble as a kid. So, his older sister came up with a nickname for him.“He was just a little devil,” Alana…
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Carolina Landa’s 12-year-old son has a new obsession: an old Scooby-Doo movie.It’s part of Zach’s life with autism. He fixates on certain objects — a…