Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 43.06 - Governor.
43.06.350 - Foreign nationals or citizens, convicted offenders—Transfers and sentences.

RCW 43.06.350
Foreign nationals or citizens, convicted offenders—Transfers and sentences.

Whenever any convicted offender, who is a citizen or national of a foreign country and is under the jurisdiction of the department of corrections, requests transfer to the foreign country of which he or she is a citizen or national, under a treaty on the transfer of offenders entered into between the United States and a foreign country, the governor or the governor's designee:
(1) May grant the approval of the state to such transfer as provided in the treaty; and
(2) Shall have, notwithstanding any provision of chapter 9.95 or 72.68 RCW, the plenary authority to fix the duration of the offender's sentence, if not otherwise fixed, whenever a fixed sentence is a condition precedent to transfer.

[ 1983 c 255 § 9.]

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