Airway Heights Corrections Center (AHCC)
Facility Alerts & Notices
Before visiting, check for notices that may impact your travel plans. For visitation cancellations, you can follow 
@WADOCVisits on Twitter.
- Effective Friday, March 20, 2020: Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) is temporarily suspending all volunteer access and associated services at all prison facilities. This action is taken to enhance the practice of social distancing and further mitigate the risk of exposure to our employees and incarcerated population. For further details, please see the Temporary Suspension of Volunteer Services memo (pdf).
- Effective Friday, March 13, 2020: Consistent with DOH guidelines, Corrections is working to implement enhanced screening protocols for all employees/contract staff, incarcerated individuals and others entering our facilities and field offices to include taking temperatures and answering screening questionnaires.
Until we are able to put those protocols into place, we are taking the following actions effective March 13:
- Suspending visitation at all correctional facilities in Washington including extended family visits (EFV). Corrections has authorized reimbursement for families scheduled for EFVs
- Restricting access for all individuals, with the exception of employees/contract staff and legal professionals, to Monroe Correctional Complex, Washington Corrections Center, and Washington Corrections Center for Women
- Suspending all tours and events involving four or more outside guests at all facilities
At A Glance
Local Family Council
DOC Policy 530.155 Family Councils
Custody Levels:
Minimum, Minimum MI3, & Medium
Living Units & Custody Levels
Capacity: 2,258 male inmates
Year Opened: 1992
AHCC Visiting Information
Visitor Application Process
To visit an inmate, you must complete the visitor application process. Go to the Prison Visits webpage for information about what is required in your specific circumstances to complete the visitor application process.
The visitor application process must be completed for both Prison Visits and Video Visits.
Visitor Guidelines
The general guidelines that are applicable to all prison facilities is detailed in DOC Policy 450.300 Visits for Incarcerated Individuals. AHCC also has its own Visitor's Guidelines detailing important notices, visiting rules, guidelines for all visits (prison and video), and regular visiting hours for each housing unit.
AHCC's Regular Visiting Hours have also been published below as a quick reference for your convenience.
Family Friendly Events
Many family friendly events are hosted at AHCC. These events may disrupt regularly scheduled visiting hours. Please refer to the AHCC Family Friendly Events Calendar for information regarding upcoming scheduled events.
Regular Visiting Hours
Below are the regularly scheduled visiting hours for each unit that accepts visitors at AHCC. Main facility only, no visitors will be processed between 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. due to shift change. (This does not apply to MSU). Regular visiting hours are subject to change due to unplanned incidents, as well as scheduled events. Please check facility alerts & notices, as well as the Family Friendly Events Calendar and Visitor's Guidelines for information that may impact your travel plans.
| Sunday: | Noon – 3:30 p.m. |
|---|---|
| Monday: | 5:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Tuesday: | None |
| Wednesday: | None |
| Thursday: | None |
| Friday: | Noon – 3:30 p.m. |
| Saturday: | 5:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Sunday: | 5:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
|---|---|
| Monday: | Noon – 3:30 p.m. |
| Tuesday: | None |
| Wednesday: | None |
| Thursday: | None |
| Friday: | 5:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Saturday: | Noon – 3:30 p.m. |
| Sunday: | 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 5:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
|---|---|
| Monday: | 5:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Tuesday: | None |
| Wednesday: | None |
| Thursday: | None |
| Friday: | 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 5:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
| Saturday: | 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 5:15 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. |
Infirmary
For inmates unable to attend normal visiting due to significant health concerns
| Sunday: | 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
|---|---|
| Monday: | 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
| Tuesday: | None |
| Wednesday: | None |
| Thursday: | None |
| Friday: | 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
| Saturday: | 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. |
Video Visiting Hours
Per DOC Policy 450.300 – Attachment 1, Video Visiting, video visits will be scheduled in 30 minute increments and may not exceed one hour in duration. Hours posted represent the available check-in times for scheduled visits.
Facility Programs
Academic & Partnership Programs
- Adult Basic Education
- Dog Training & Adoption Program
- General Education Development (GED)
- Sustainability in Prisons Project
- Victim Awareness
Research Based Programs
- Stress & Anger Management
- Sex Offender Treatment
- Substance Abuse Treatment
Work & Vocational Programs
- Aerospace Composites (I–BEST)
- Bindery
- Bookkeeping
- Business Technology
- CAD Drafting and Design
- Computer Basics
- Computer Refurbishing
- Department of Natural Resources Work Crews
- Food Service
- Job Search
- Maintenance (custodial, plumbers, painters, home builders, laundry, upholstery)
- Optical Lab
- Teacher’s Aides
- Upholstery
Community Involvement
Airway Heights encourages supervised interaction between community members and incarcerated persons.
Family Events
The Community Partnership Program and volunteers from the community are dedicated to providing events, projects, and programs to inmates and their families. These include Book Fairs, Family Craft Events, Santa Comes to Visiting, Day with Dad, Family Illness and Eulogy Video, and the Family (Children's) Birthday Party program.
Volunteer Programs
Volunteers are instrumental in assisting in the development of programs aimed at promoting positive changes in personal growth and successful reintegration to society. Volunteer led programs at AHCC include: African American Literature Program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Freedom Project-Non-Violent Communication, Locks of Love, Narcotics Anonymous, PRIDE, Toastmasters International, Eastern Washington University’s Writer's in the Community (WITC), Yoga, and multiple faith based programs including special holiday events.
Serving the Community
AHCC prison work crews are a way inmates can give back to the community.
Art in Public Places
The Art in Public Places (AIPP) program facilitates the acquisition, placement, and stewardship of artwork in state-funded building projects throughout Washington. The Washington State Legislature established the AIPP program in 1974 to acquire artwork for educational institutions and state agencies, funded by ½ of 1 percent of the state’s portion of construction costs. Today, the State Art Collection includes more than 4,700 artworks.
Untitled, 1993 | Untitled, 1993 | River Rescue, 1993 | Tradition, 1993
Airway Heights Superintendent
Superintendent
James Key
James Key started his career in corrections at Spokane County’s Geiger Corrections Center, where he served for 10 years prior to beginning his career with the Washington Department of Corrections’ Airway Heights Corrections Center. He started his state correctional work as a correctional unit supervisor and advanced through the positions of administrative program manager and associate superintendent, before being promoted to superintendent on June 1, 2015.
Key earned his associate of arts degree from Wenatchee Valley Community College, and his Bachelor of Arts degree from Eastern Washington University. He is a member of the Community Colleges of Spokane-Criminal Justice Advisory Committee and the American Correctional Association.