CLALLAM BAY — A Clallam Bay Corrections Center inmate has asked Clallam County Superior Court to expand access he and other inmates have to legal documents.
In paperwork filed last week in Superior Court, inmate Cesar Ponce requested the court compel the prison to change its policy giving inmates access to legal records only within 45 days of a court deadline.
The corrections center has been ordered to respond in court at 9 a.m. Feb. 21.
Ponce, a prisoner in the intensive management unit — the maximum custody segment of the corrections center — has access to a law library during the one hour each day he is not confined to his cell, corrections center Spokeswoman LeAnne Fletcher said Thursday.
Prisoners in the unit can also request specific legal materials from their cells if they are doing casework, Fletcher said.
Ponce’s court records state he is seeking review of his case before the state Supreme Court and would need more than 45 days to prepare a petition for review.
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