State DOC to pay record fine for withholding from Prison Legal News, Seattle P-I, June 8, 2007:
The state Department of Corrections will pay a Seattle-based prisoner-rights newspaper $541,000 for withholding public records -- the largest public-records related settlement in state history.
The Friday judgment comes more than seven years after Paul Wright, the editor of Prison Legal News, submitted two requests for public records detailing how 14 prison medical workers were reprimanded for their treatment of 10 inmates who died or suffered serious injuries.
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