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Wash. Rev. Code § 10.64.060 (2025)

Form of sentence to penitentiary

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In every case where imprisonment in the penitentiary is awarded against any convict, the form of the sentence shall be, that he or she be punished by confinement at hard labor; and he or she may also be sentenced to solitary imprisonment for such term as the court shall direct, not exceeding twenty days at any one time; and in the execution of such punishment the solitary shall precede the punishment by hard labor, unless the court shall otherwise order.
[ 2010 c 8 s 1056; Code 1881 s 1127; 1873 p 243 s 285; 1854 p 124 s 149; RRS s 2208.]

Notes:

Indeterminate sentences: Chapter 9.95 RCW.
Sentencing, 1981 act: Chapter 9.94A RCW.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1 case, 1971–1971 · leading case: State v. Gitchel, 486 P.2d 328 (Wash. Ct. App. 1971).
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State v. Gitchel, 486 P.2d 328 (Wash. Ct. App. 1971). “See also RCW 10.64.060 and RCW 36.63.140, which limit solitary confinement in prisons and jails to a term of not exceeding 20 days.”
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