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| State ends asbestos cleanup by prisoners |
| By bellinghamherald.com- Jordan Schrader |
| Published: 04/21/2014 |
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Washington will no longer send prisoners to clean up cancer-causing asbestos at $4 an hour. The state Department of Corrections says it has shut down a 23-year-old program that deployed inmate work crews to remove asbestos-containing material. In what the agency says is an unrelated matter, it has paid a fine of more than $70,000 to settle a state investigation into cleanup practices used last June at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Purdy. “They were allowing the workers to be exposed to asbestos,” said Elaine Fischer, a spokeswoman for the Department of Labor and Industries, which investigated. Read More. |
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