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Washing the inmates’ laundry in cold water, composting kitchen waste and collecting rain water are holding down costs to both the taxpayer and the environment, says the Department of Corrections.

The state’s 15 prisons have seen some successes in the last four years:

• 23 percent less waste sent to dumps

• 18 percent less vehicle fuel used

• 1.5 percent less energy use per square foot

• 40 percent increase in recycling

“It’s like a lot of other things. It’s where the light shines. There’s some unexpected gains when you start going down the road on sustainability,” said Dan Pacholke, the department’s facilities administrator for Western Washington.

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But not all of the changes have been popular with the inmates.

Washing clothes and bed sheets in cold water requires adding a chemical sanitizer, and the whites don’t come out as bright as they would after a hot water wash, said Hisami Yoshida, the superintendent at Cedar Creek.


“I have to fight to keep that. They want to go to hot water,” she said.

Laundry facility supervisor Larry Lipp couldn’t say how much hot water was saved by switching to cold water wash, but he noted the facility has a 600-gallon hot water tank, and goes through 500 to 700 pounds of laundry a day.

The center has also pushed turning lights off when possible and turning the inmate’s heat down.

“That wasn’t popular in the winter time,” said Johnson.

It can’t get too cold, either in the inmates’ cells or at the sink faucet—the facility must meet health codes.

And in a prison, some lights have to be on all the time.

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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

Pellucidar or Bust!

in 'thermonucular wedgie'.
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apotheosis said:

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in 'and finally'.
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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

The Army rank and file love her!;)

in 'she is Sarah, hear the roar'.
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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

I once, years ago, wrote a paper on this very topic..

Of how bureaucracies inevidebly come to exist for their own sake; whether government, corporate or Labor Union.  The result is, in the end, always the same; paralysis at the center and chaos at the extremities.

in 'Hear that scraping sound?'.
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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

Impale them on hooks outside the city gates
as a warning to other would-be malefactors

Call me a traditionalist......

in 'free wheelbarrow rides to Pakistan'.
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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

And. RIGHT behind it......

History and Politics!  ;-)

in 'bag and tag this hag'.
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Lucius Severus Pertinax -Licensed Agnotologist said:

Hi, there! I like you!
Will you be my frrreinnnnd?

in 'and finally'.
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dick, not-quite-dead white guy said:

“Hey, a new tree. Let’s climb all over it and mark it as mine.”
Snick, snick, out come the needletoes and up he goes.
“Hi handsome, new in town?”

in 'and finally'.
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The Ugly American said:

Had to laugh at this photo on her facebook page…

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You just gotta know it was done as a purposeful dig at the disciples of Obama.

in 'bag and tag this hag'.
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dick, not-quite-dead white guy said:

Sarah is on the cover of Newsweak and Andrea is nowhere.
Andrea gets shoved away by cop, Sarah is protected by cop.
Andrea sleeps with Alan Greenspan and Sarah sleeps with Todd.
Andrea Bitchell is a jealous hack.

in 'bag and tag this hag'.
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The Ugly American said:

Name a personal accomplishment that you are proud of.

Realizing after many years of wasting my life living as a bleeding-heart, politically-correct lemming that liberals were in fact bigger liars and hypocrites than conservatives and that if I was going to err on a political side I’d rather it be the one that doesn’t loathe America’s triumphs and accomplishments at every turn.

Lost many so-called friends along the way as my beliefs began shifting ever rightward.

A close second accomplishment would be when I pulled up stakes (in Oakland) and moved to Los Angeles with no job, sleeping on a friend’s couch for over a year before changing careers altogether and moved into television production.

I remember being completely terrified on the morning I left Oakland...driving my moving van & car trailer...alone...down Interstate 5 trying my best not to pass out from panic attacks. But when I finally drove onto the 101 fwy and saw the Hollywood sign in the distance, something told me that everything was going to be alright.

Yeah okay...L.A. sucks the big wiener now and if I didn’t love my job so much I’d probably have moved on long ago.

Still, I’m glad for the experience and I have met some nice folks here : )

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Old Retired Petty Officer said:

That was a righteous one, my man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

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Paladin said:

But it’s the right wingers who are violent, right?

RIGHT???

And that Sarah?  She’s finished.  She’s irrelevant.  Nobody pays attention to her anymore.

I heard she’s dum.

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Bob1 said:

“I smellz doughnutz on yr breath!  I wants!”

in 'and finally'.
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The Ugly American said:

The funniest part is watching the cat approaching through the weeds with his tail up, all chipper like.

in 'and finally'.
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Bobb Cobb said:

Now that’s why I love cats.
Eat me dog owners!!!

in 'and finally'.
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Melissa, seething in Texas said:

You have a valid point, Bob1.
The way she makes them foam at the mouth…

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The Ugly American said:

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Melissa, seething in Texas said:

That made me laugh, thank you!
The cop..... OMG!
He had to be a cat owner.
That is the only way I figure he kept from catapulting the kitty....
A cat hater would have made it an astronaut!

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Bobb Cobb said:

Was the BHO this popular 3 years before his election?

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