The complaint asks a federal judge to block DOC from housing certain inmates at the women’s prison in 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 ...

OLYMPIA – Most state workers can expect a $1,000 bonus in July for staying on at their jobs, but one group of workers at the Department of Corrections says they have been wrongfully excluded from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Washington Corrections Center for Women is in Pierce County. (Washington Department of Corrections) A woman formerly ...

YACOLT Wash. (KPTV) - Larch Corrections Center, a minimum-security facility located near Yacolt, is set to close Tuesday after a Clark County judge ruled in favor of the Department of Corrections (DOC ...

The Washington State Department of Corrections announced Monday that it will close one of its minimum security facilities, and dramatically reduce its use of solitary confinement. Larch Corrections ...

SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — KOMO News confirmed that the man shot and killed in a drive-by shooting along Machias Rd in Snohomish County Thursday evening was a corrections officer with the Washington ...

THURSTON COUNTY, Wash. — Solitary confinement, loss of prison employment and loss of contact with loved ones; these are several consequences a group of Washington inmates faced after their belongings ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mar. 21—Two incarcerated individuals at the Washington Corrections Center (WCC) in Shelton who presented mumps symptoms last week ...

One of Washington’s 12 prisons is set to close this autumn amid falling numbers of incarcerated people, the state Department of Corrections has announced. DOC plans to close Larch Corrections Center, ...