(The Center Square) – If you’ve noticed a lot more vehicles with temporary Washington state license plates in recent months, it’s not your imagination. A license plate shortage got so bad in September that more than half of Washington counties reported having no plates in stock. On Tuesday, the Washington State Department of Corrections announced that Correctional Industries, which uses inmate labor to produce license plates, has started to reduce the backlog of orders. During a same-day work session, Sean Murphy, deputy secretary of the Department of Corrections, told members of the Senate Tr…