Facility Programs

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.

Local Family Council

Our Local Family Council gives us a way to talk with Department of Corrections (DOC) staff at Airway Heights Corrections Center (AHCC) and make suggestions concerning how to make life better for loved ones. We can ask AHCC staff from different departments (e.g., property, medical, recreation, visiting, etc.) to attend our meetings, answer our questions, and explain how their departments operate.

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 Ron Haynes

Ron Haynes joined the Washington Department of Corrections in 1986 as a correctional officer at Washington State Penitentiary. In 1989 he moved to Clallam Bay Corrections Center and served six years in the capacities of correctional officer, correctional sergeant, and temporary hearings lieutenant until promoting to Airway Heights Corrections Center (AHCC) in 1994. While at AHCC Ron served in the capacity of lieutenant and captain, until he accepted the position of Associate Superintendent of Programs in 2012. Haynes’ experience includes serving as correctional captain at Monroe Correctional Complex’s Washington State Reformatory Unit for six months in 2002. In October 2017, he became Superintendent of Stafford Creek Corrections Center.

Superintendent Haynes has extensive history working with DOC specialty teams at multiple facilities. He has been a member and team leader for Emergency Response Teams and Special Emergency Response Teams at Clallam Bay and Airway Heights. Ron has also served as an emergency response team academy instructor.

During his 30 years Haynes has worked at four different facilities, and at all of the custody levels from MI2 to Max. He has vast knowledge of prison operations and emergency response, having been involved in multiple incidents throughout his career.