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| Washington state ends inmate asbestos-removal program |
| By spokesman.com |
| Published: 04/22/2014 |
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OLYMPIA – Washington state has ended a more than two-decade-long program that used prisoners to remove asbestos-containing material, a newspaper reported Monday. The state also paid a fine of more than $70,000 to settle a state investigation into cleanup practices last June at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Purdy, a project that the Department of Labor and Industries said exposed inmate workers to asbestos, the News Tribune of Tacoma reported. The state Department of Corrections said the decision to end the cleanup program and the settlement were unrelated, and it disputes that work teams were exposed. Read More. |
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