Cedar Creek Corrections Center (CCCC)
Facility Alerts & Notices
Before visiting, check for notices that may impact your travel plans. For visitation cancellations, you can follow 
@WADOCVisits on Twitter.
- Effective Thursday, September 15, 2022: Visitation scheduling will resume immediately. Approved visitors of all ages are now able to schedule a contact visit for up to three hours except where prohibited by policy.
- Friday, June 11, 2021: National inventory supply chain issues are causing delivery delays for the bi-monthly food package program. See the package program page for more details.
- View the current COVID-19 prison visit guidelines and prison facility visitation statuses. Prison facility visitation statuses are based upon community COVID-19 levels which can change at any time.
Contact & Location
At A Glance
Local Family CouncilDOC Policy 530.155 Family Councils (pdf)
Custody Level: Minimum
Living Units & Custody Levels
Capacity: 480 male inmates
Year Opened: 1954
CCCC Visiting Information
Approved visitors may schedule visits using the COVID-19 Prison Visit Appointment Request form. See the COVID-19 prison visit guidelines and frequently asked questions for more 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 (pdf). CCCC also has its own Visitor's Guidelines (pdf) detailing important notices, visiting rules, guidelines for all visits (prison and video), and regular visiting hours for each housing unit.
CCCC's Regular Visiting Hours have also been published below as a quick reference for your convenience.
REMINDER: All visitors may arrive to the facility 15 minutes prior to the start of visitation.
Family Friendly Events
Many family friendly events are hosted at CCCC. These events may disrupt regularly scheduled visiting hours. Please refer to the CCCC Family Friendly Events Calendar (pdf) for information regarding upcoming scheduled events.
Regular Visiting Hours
For regular visit opportunities, view the COVID-19 Prison Visit Appointment Request form to obtain the facility and unit-specific available dates and times.
Video Visiting Hours
Per Video Visit Expectations (pdf), video visits will be scheduled in 30 minute increments and may not exceed one hour in duration. Video visits may be scheduled by an approved visitor through JPay at least 24 hours in advance.
| Days | Time |
|---|---|
| Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday | 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. –; 9:00 p.m. |
Facility Programs
Academic & Partnership Programs
- Adult Basic Education
- Dog Training Program
- General Education Diploma (GED)
- Getting it Right
- Job Readiness
- Sustainability in Prisons Project
Research Based Programs
Work & Vocational Programs
- Building Maintenance
- Computer Technology
- Community Work Crews
- Composting & Recycling
- Department of Natural Resources Work Crews
- Drywall Installation
- Information Technology
- Institutional Support Jobs
- Roofing
- Siding
- Sustainability Jobs
- Waste Water Treatment Plant
Community Involvement
The Community Partnership Program at Cedar Creek Corrections Center (CCCC) is involved in several community programs.
Giving Back to the Community
Cedar Creek partners with our local schools, businesses, and churches to collaborate on several community projects each year. Through their own fundraising events, inmates have donated funds to ROOF, St. Jude's Hospital, Littlerock School, and the Dog Program for Veterans. Additionally, CCCC staff have held food drives for local food banks, supported local non-profits such as the Rochester ROOF program, and Adopt-a-Family during the holidays annually.
Serving the Community
Cedar Creek provides community service prison work crews that perform thousands of hours of work each year for local, county, non-profit organizations, and state agencies.
Cedar Creek also collaborates with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Prison work crews under DNR's supervision maintain trails and surrounding campgrounds of the Capital Forest, plant trees, and fight forest fires.
Sustainability in the Community
Cedar Creek is dedicated to engaging staff members and inmates in sustainability efforts. These efforts include gardening, composting, recycling, and rainwater catchment.
Through the Sustainability in Prisons Project (SPP) Cedar Creek partners with The Evergreen State College and the Department of Fish and Wildlife to connect inmates with nature and teach them about environmental responsibility. Inmates at CCCC participate in several sustainability programs that directly support and serve the community:
Cedar Creek’s location on the South easterly border of a 110,000-acre forest is an ideal location for the Sustainability in Prisons Project (SPP) that Cedar Creek is nationally known for working with. In fact, the Department of Correction’s sustainability efforts began at Cedar Creek. The SPP’s mission is to empower sustainable change by bringing nature, science, and environmental education into prisons. Cedar Creek is dedicated to engaging staff members and incarcerated individuals in sustainability efforts. These efforts include gardening, composting, recycling, and rainwater catchment.
Cedar Creek Superintendent
Superintendent Tim Thrasher
Tim Thrasher started his employment with the Washington Department of Corrections in 1994. He first served as a correctional officer at the Monroe Correctional Complex before transferring to Cedar Creek Corrections Center. He then promoted to investigator and eventually chief investigator at Washington Corrections Center (WCC). Following that assignment, he worked as part of a team to implement the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Unit. The project included developing policy, training and conducting PREA related investigations.
Tim was later promoted to chief of investigative operations, and most recently was the missioned housing administrator (MHA). As the MHA, he had statewide oversight of restrictive housing, veterans’ units, the skill building unit and other missioned housing. Starting in September 2021, Tim began assisting WCC with coordinating resources within HQ Prisons, Health Services, Transportation and Criminal Conviction Records Unit to work on both current classifications and transfers, and streamline the reception process.
Tim has served as associate superintendent at Stafford Creek Corrections Center and superintendent at Larch Corrections Center. Tim has a Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College.