Asistencia para liberados condicionales y prisioneros en Washington

Explicación Simple

Esta ley ayuda a personas que han estado en prisión y ahora están en libertad, dándoles dinero para cubrir sus necesidades básicas. Así, pueden mantener a sus familias hasta que encuentren un trabajo.

Es como cuando un amigo se muda a una nueva ciudad y no tiene dinero para rentar un lugar, así que le prestas un poco de dinero para que se acomode mientras busca empleo.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina a Juan, que salió de la cárcel después de cumplir su condena. No tiene trabajo y no sabe cómo mantener a su familia. Gracias a esta ley, puede recibir un apoyo financiero del gobierno hasta que consiga empleo y pueda mantenerse por sí mismo.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

RCW 9.95.320 - Assistance for parolees, work release, and discharged prisoners -- Subsistence payments -- Terms and conditions The secretary of corrections or his or her designee may provide to any parolee, inmate assigned to a work/training release facility, discharged prisoner and persons convicted of a felony committed before July 1, 1984, and granted probation in need and without necessary means, from any funds legally available therefor, such reasonable sums as he or she deems necessary for the subsistence of such person and his or her family until such person has become gainfully employed. Such aid may be made under such terms and conditions, and through local parole or probation officers if necessary, as the secretary of corrections or his or her designee may require and shall be supplementary to any moneys which may be provided under public assistance or from any other source. RCW 9.95.330 - Assistance for parolees, work release, and discharged prisoners -- Department may accept gifts and make expenditures The department of corrections may accept any devise, bequest, gift, grant, or contribution made for the purposes of RCW 9.95.310 through 9.95.370 and the secretary of corrections or his designee may make expenditures, or approve expenditures by local parole or probation officers, therefrom for the purposes of RCW 9.95.310 through 9.95.370 in accordance with the rules of the department of corrections.