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Washington Corrections Center (WCC) Shelton: 1964 Yes Male 1,268 Medium Close Maximum Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) Gig Harbor: 1971 Yes Female 738 MI-2 MI-3 Medium Close Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) Walla Walla: 1886 Yes Male 2,439 MI-2 MI-3 Medium Close Maximum
The modern Washington Department of Corrections is a relatively young state agency. Agency oversight of correctional institutions in Washington State went through several transitions during the 20th century before the WADOC's creation in 1981. Prior to the 1970s, state correctional facilities were managed by the Washington Department of ...
The Washington State Reformatory opened in 1910, making it the second oldest operational prison in Washington state, behind the Washington State Penitentiary. [1] The next facility opened was the Special Offender Unit in 1980. [6] In 1984 the Twin Rivers Corrections Center was opened. [7] It is now known as the Twin Rivers Unit.
Brodey Drew Brownell, 19, appears in Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma, Washington, on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, to be sentenced following his guilty plea to first-degree murder in the July 2023 ...
The department currently has 13 work release facilities. All but two of these facilities is operated by contractors, who manage the daily safety and security and have oversight of the facilities full-time (24-hours a day, 7-days per week).
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In the 1910s, inmates included Robert Stroud, the "Birdman of Alcatraz", who fatally stabbed a prison guard in March 1916. During World War II , eighty-five Japanese Americans who had resisted the draft to protest their wartime confinement , including civil rights activist Gordon Hirabayashi , were sentenced to prison terms at McNeil; all were ...
Today, the facility can house 900 inmates. The facility provides medium-, maximum-, and close-custody housing for inmates who are serving sentences for crimes committed in Washington State. Currently, 68.4% of Clallam Bay's offenders were convicted of violent offenses, with an average age of 32.1 years old.