Washington prisons delayed nearly a third of release dates last year
In the summer of 2019, Antonio Castillo hitchhiked the last leg of his 280-mile return from the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton to his grandmother’s home in Okanogan County.
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Even if he had time to plan for his release, Castillo had another problem. “I didn’t know when I was getting out,” he told InvestigateWest. “I was totally in the dark.”
Unbeknownst to Castillo, his earned release date — the day he was scheduled to leave prison — had passed a month before he stepped out of the Washington Corrections Center.
Had he known when he would be released, Castillo argues he could have laid at least basic groundwork for his return home. But without a firm date around which to plan, he says he never had a chance.
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