In re the Personal Restraint of Pierce

¶1 This case involves the authority of the Department of Corrections (Department) to deduct funds from an inmate’s trust account. Chad Alan Pierce, a Washington State inmate, filed a personal restraint petition challenging the Department’s collection of costs of incarceration and legal financial obligations (LFOs) from his account. He asserts that his judgment and sentence prohibits the Department from making such deductions. We disagree and hold that the Department has statutory authority to deduct costs of incarceration independent of the judgment and sentence. In addition, the Department…