The Washington Corrections Center for Women is in Pierce County. A woman formerly incarcerated at the women’s prison in Gig Harbor recently filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging that ...

Mar. 21—Two incarcerated individuals at the Washington Corrections Center (WCC) in Shelton who presented mumps symptoms last week tested negative for the virus on Monday. Out of caution, the ...

The Washington State DOC will leverage Unite Us’ closed-loop referral system, facilitating seamless connections to vital resources, promoting self-sufficiency, and fostering positive outcomes while ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington Department of Corrections video calls system is down and won’t work until Friday, meaning anyone hoping to video conference with someone in the Washington prison system ...

Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson on Dec. 3 revealed who will helm the state’s corrections department under his administration. Tim Lang, who now heads the corrections division of the Attorney General’s Office, ...

ROSEDALE, Wash. – The Washington Corrections Center for Women received five chocolate lab puppies this week as a part of the Prison Pet Partnership. The partnership, which is based out of Gig Harbor ...

MASON COUNTY, Wash. — For two years, Alena Folsom has known her job as a prison cook was in jeopardy. But things got real Monday when she, and more than 100 of her co-workers at Mission Creek ...

A man was nearly beaten to death by a fellow inmate in Pierce County Jail and then sexually assaulted by a Washington state corrections officer after he was taken to a hospital with a catastrophic ...

Paul Anderson struggled to stay out of trouble with the law for years after getting out of prison. It wasn’t until he spent six months at the Washington State Department of Corrections reentry program ...

ABERDEEN — Sgt. Alexandrea Collecchi knows all about the dangers of prison. She works in a solitary confinement unit at Stafford Creek Corrections Center on the Olympic Peninsula. Her parents worked ...