Under court order, 46 inmates released to Snohomish County
OLYMPIA — Forty-six inmates have been freed early from state correctional facilities and returned to Snohomish County, where they had been convicted of stealing cars, selling drugs, burglaries and other crimes.
Of the total, 42 had their sentences commuted and four were furloughed from work release. Statewide, as of Tuesday morning, 440 men and women had been released early with commuted sentences and 41 had been released through furloughs.
The releases began April 17 and are continuing this week as the state Department of Corrections looks to protect those behind bars from COVID-19 by thinning their populations in prisons and work-release facilities across the state.
In all, about 1,000 inmates will be freed under a plan submitted to the state Supreme Court, in an order aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus in Washington’s 12 prisons and 12 work release facilities.
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