OLYMPIA — An outside investigator hired by a Senate panel to assist that chamber’s inquiry into the erroneous early release of thousands of prisoners in Washington state told lawmakers his team has reviewed more than 54,000 documents so far.
The brief appearance of Mark Bartlett, a partner at the firm of Davis Wright Tremaine, before the Senate Law and Justice Committee Wednesday night was the first public meeting with him since he was hired at the end of last month.
Bartlett said his main role is to assist with the Senate Law and Justice Committee’s probe into to a software coding error that led to the early release of up to 3,200 prisoners since 2002 because of miscalculated sentences. At least two deaths have been tied to the early releases.
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