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... emerges as the best of what you've got to work with when dealing with these offenders," Washington Secretary of Corrections Eldon Vail said Friday. Corrections officials across the country confront daily the challenge of sex offenders without an apartment, ... GPS protected this victim? I know they have not been harmed again, but this did nothing... Vail spoke with The Herald on Friday about the case, the difficulty of finding housing for homeless offenders and whether letting them live in trailers ...

The AP reported today that Senator Kastama of Puyallup has sponsored a bill to establish an independent agency that would investigate claims of prisoners. Department of Corrections Secretary Eldon Vail set forth that the Department of Corrections has its own oversight system in place that adequately handles the complaints on inmates. UPDATE: I have corrected this post which originally posited that Eldon Vail opposed the bill.

... The team members' identities are a closely guarded secret, known only to a handful of people, said Eldon Vail, secretary of the state DOC. He said even he doesn't know who ... in the future, we'll do everything we can to guard their identities," Vail said. "It's not easy finding individuals" willing to serve on the lethal-injection team, and ... "so we have some time" to figure out how to go about assembling a new team, Vail said. He's been in touch with other officials in other states, who have agreed ...

... approval to expanding the state's ankle-bracelet monitoring of some high-risk sex offenders in their home communities. The program, which began a few months ago, has about a dozen offenders on electronic monitoring, said acting state prison chief Eldon Vail. Originally, the state thought the bracelets could be ordered only for inmates who were convicted in the last few years, an estimated 50 ex-cons, but McKenna's ...