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Washington state prisoners released after drug law is voided

by Gene Johnson
| April 15, 2021 12:09 AM

SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has commuted the sentences of more than a dozen drug offenders in the past few days, freeing them from prison as Washington's legal system struggles with the fallout from a court ruling that voided the state's drug possession law.

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