Department of Corrections

Jail officials say the purpose of the Yale Grant Study is to identify ethical concerns and potential solutions for COVID-19 testing

. Corrections Director Ed Campbell they're stepping up procedures by requiring everyone including inmates to wear masks

The department will continue pre-screening all staff and inmates who enter the facility for temperature and COVID symptoms.

Three inmates were tested March 18 because they had possible symptoms of the disease.

Under the new law local law enforcement can't ask a person about their immigration status or where they were born unless authorities are investigating a specific crime.

OLYMPIA (AP) — A measure requiring that jails and the Department of Corrections provide "reasonable accommodations" for midwifery and doula services for women who are pregnant while incarcerated or who have recently given birth has been approved by the Washington state House...

SEATTLE (AP) — The state Department of Corrections is changing the language it uses to describe Washington's nearly 19,000 people behind bars. KOMO-TV reports that corrections Secretary Richard Morgan sent a memo to staff saying those serving time in prison will no longer be referred to as prisoners, offenders or convicts...

OLYMPIA (AP) — The state Department of Corrections is conducting a review to determine whether offenders are serving the correct amount of prison time. The Seattle Times reports the department's acting secretary, Richard Morgan, called on staff in a memo updated this week to make sure sentencing information was accurate before prisoners are released...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has announced the appointment of an acting secretary to the state Department of Corrections, as well as a resignation, two demotions and two reprimands of state employees related to the erroneous early release of prisoners over a 13-year period. Ins...

  OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A Senate panel is beginning its formal hearings into its inquiry into the erroneous early release of prisoners in Washington state. The Senate Law and Justice Committee released thousands of pages of documents gathered as parts of investigation, including emails from the state Department of Corrections related to a software coding error at the agency that led to the early r