ANDERSON v. STATE, DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 78715-8.

154 P.3d 220 (2007)

John Phillip ANDERSON and Frank Reed Nordlund, individually and on behalf of a class of similarly situated individuals, Appellants, v. STATE of Washington, DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Harold Clarke, Secretary, Washington State Department of Corrections, Sandra Carter, Superintendent, Clallam Bay Corrections Center, Crystal Corliss, Financial Analyst 2/Inmate Accounts Officer, Clallam Bay Corrections Center, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided March 22, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helen Allison Anderson, UW School of Law, Seattle, WA, for Appellants.

Mary Catherine McLachlan, Attorney General's Office, Spokane, WA, Sara J. Olson, Attorney General's Office, Olympia, WA, for Respondents.


BRIDGE, J.

¶ 1 Appellants John Anderson and Frank Nordlund are inmates at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center. Both were sentenced to life without the possibility of parole or release (LWOP). In recent years, each has received income from nonwork related outside sources, including funds sent to them by family members. The Department of Corrections (Department) deducted 20 percent of those deposits for application toward Anderson and Nordlund's court-ordered legal...

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