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Detection Dog Training to Keep Drugs Off Streets (video)

Keeping illegal drugs out of our community is tough task that takes a lot of effort from law enforcement to keep our communities safe...

March 15, 2023

Amend: How We Create Better Neighbors (video)

In 2020, the department partnered with Amend at the University of California San Francisco to bring a health-focused approach to transforming the culture inside Washington’s prisons and reentry centers...

March 8, 2023

PRESS RELEASE: DOC Names New Tribal Relations Director

OLYMPIA - Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) Secretary Cheryl Strange has appointed Colleen Cawston as the agency’s Tribal Relations Director...

March 6, 2023

Therapeutic Training Is Helping Incarcerated Achieve Sobriety

The Therapeutic Community Training program has made its return to prisons across the state after a four-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 virus...

February 15, 2023