Bills · 2017-2018 Regular Session
Relating to: solitary confinement of an inmate under 18 years of age.
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill prohibits an inmate under 18 years of age from being held in solitary
confinement for violating the rules of a juvenile detention facility, secured residential
care center for children and youth, juvenile correctional facility, prison, or jail. Under
current law, an inmate of a prison or jail may be held in solitary confinement under
the care and advice of a physician, but not over ten days, for violating the rules of the
prison or jail.
Sponsors
Full history
- Aug 7, 2017 · Assembly
Introduced by Representatives Young, Crowley, Bowen, Fields, Berceau, Goyke, Ohnstad, Pope, Subeck, C. Taylor, Wachs and Zepnick; cosponsored by Senators L. Taylor, Carpenter, Larson, Miller, Risser and Vinehout
- Aug 7, 2017 · Assembly
Read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections
- Aug 14, 2017 · Assembly
Representative Spreitzer added as a coauthor
- Mar 28, 2018 · Assembly
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1