CONNELL, Wash. -- The Department of Corrections is looking for an inmate who escaped from Coyote Ridge Corrections Center. Joshua Michael Lanter, 29, was reported missing early Monday morning during route checks. The DOC said he was in a minimum…
The state Department of Labor & Industries said in a news release Wednesday that the agency began an investigation and inspection after a correctional officer tested positive for COVID-19 in June and died.
The DOC said the decision comes after several years of reviewing the disciplinary process.
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Spokane Police arrested a Level 3 sex offender that escaped from a community housing facility Saturday evening. Police say 61-year-old Brian Scott Jones somehow got his electronic monitoring device off and left the facility. The facility is…
Governor Jay Inslee announced Thursday that Cheryl Strange has been named Washington’s new Department of Corrections Secretary.
We've shared several stories of inmates telling us what it's like inside there. Tonight, we spoke with one prisoner and his wife about their experience.
Since last week, nearly 800 inmates and more than 50 staff members at the Airway Heights Corrections Center tested positive for COVID-19.
SEATAC, Wash. (AP) - The Federal Detention Center in SeaTac says it has a cluster of infections among inmates and staff. The Seattle Times reports that as of Thursday, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said 31 inmates and six staff…
The number of COVID-19 cases continues to grow at the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center.
Eighteen inmates are being housed at the regional care facility at the Airway Heights Corrections Center, according to the Department of Corrections.
The Airway Heights Corrections Center has been identified as a potential regional care facility should there be a COVID-19 outbreak in the Washington state prisons system.
The Spokane Police Guild is protesting the release of certain inmates back into communities, following Governor Jay Inslee's commutation order to provide more social distancing in corrections centers.
The Washington State Department of Corrections has filed a lawsuit against the federal government for the PFOS contamination of water near the Airway Heights Corrections Center.
The Washington Department of Corrections (DOC) is planning to release inmates back into the community to provide more physical distancing in corrections centers.
Some have called the Spokane County Jail a "revolving door of criminals" over the last few months and now, the man who runs it says he may have a solution and it doesn't involve building a new jail. Instead, Mike Sparber says he's considering turning away certain types of criminals.
