McNeil Island Corrections Center News

Sequim Police Officer Mike Hill with his late partner Titus, who died Monday. -- Photo courtesy of Sequim Police Department.

Going through other people's stuff is part of a corrections officer's job. "We try to treat their stuff with respect," said Ron Van Boling, Superintendent at McNeil Island Corrections Center.

A consultant's report on options for eliminating state prison beds casts doubt on the future of Larch Corrections Center in east Clark County.

A much-anticipated study issued today does not recommend closing the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe to help the state save money.

Officials are still searching for the cause of the fire that leveled the old Steilacoom Marina on Friday morning.

Fireboats tend to the smoldering ruins of Steilacoom Marina which went up in flames early Friday morning.

After cutting loose more than 8,000 offenders from probation in the past two months, the state Department of Corrections is considering an even more drastic cost-reduction measure: closing at least one prison.

Prisoners at McNeil Island Corrections Center have been without hot water since Tuesday, when two water pumps malfunctioned, officials said Friday.

With the McNeil Island prison clearly in the cross hairs for closure, Pierce County community leaders are going to make their case for keeping the 1,300-inmate facility open.

A team of consultants tasked with recommending prison closures visited the Monroe Correctional Complex yesterday.

The state Office of Financial Management , which has hired a consulting firm to draw up a plan for cutting 1,500 prison beds, confirms that the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe is on a shortlist of institutions getting a hard look.

Earlier this month, while Leon Toney lay in a coma at a Tacoma rehab facility, the state invalidated his marriage.

A highly unusual Washington Supreme Court decision today in which no members of the Supreme Court participated, for the reason that one of them was the subject of the case.