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Public Alerts & Notices

This webpage is regularly updated with the most recent informational alerts and notices for all Department facilities and offices in the state of Washington. Please refer to the alerts and notices provided below for information that may impact your travel plans.

Prison Facility Alerts & Notices

See prison facility notices below for information that may impact your travel plans. Please be advised that unforeseen security problems may interfere with visiting, causing delayed, shortened, suspended or cancelled visits. This is unusual, but it does occasionally occur.

Airway Heights Corrections Center (AHCC)

  • Starting July 1, 2024, the 3:30 p.m. check-in time for the Extended Family Visiting (EFV) will no longer be available. Friday and Saturday check-in times will be at 11:10 a.m. for Main and MSU. This will not affect the Extended Family Visits that have already been scheduled and approved. If you have a special visit during these time frames you will receive an email to reschedule.
  • The Extended Family Visiting (EFV) units at MSU will be closed October 4 – 14, 2024. EFVs will reopen on October 18, 2024.
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Cedar Creek Corrections Center (CCCC)

  • Cedar Creek Visiting is open under normal operating hours.
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Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC)

  • Friday, October 11, 2024: Network outage at Clallam Bay Corrections Center & Olympic Corrections Center is impacting phones, internet, and Securus. This is impacting both staff and incarcerated individuals.
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Coyote Ridge Corrections Center (CRCC)

  • Saturday, October 12, 2024: MSC Visiting will be closed in the morning. Regular visiting open 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
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Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women (MCCCW)

  • None at this time.
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Monroe Correctional Complex (MCC)

  • Friday, October 4, 2024: MSU will be piloting a project to open visiting for all units on Mondays and Fridays only effective October 4, 2024. The visiting calendar has been updated to reflect this change.
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Olympic Corrections Center (OCC)

  • Friday, October 11, 2024: Network outage at Clallam Bay Corrections Center & Olympic Corrections Center is impacting phones, internet, and Securus. This is impacting both staff and incarcerated individuals.
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Stafford Creek Corrections Center (SCCC)

  • Saturday, October 19, 2024: Visiting will be open at 11:30 a.m.
  • Saturday, December 7, 2024: Visiting will be closed until 4:45 p.m.
  • Sunday, December 8, 2024: Visiting will be closed until 4:45 p.m.
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Washington Corrections Center (WCC)

  • Saturday, October 12, 2024: Visiting will be closed from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, October 26, 2024: Visiting will be closed from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Sunday, October 27, 2024: Visiting will be closed from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, November 16, 2024: Visiting will be closed from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, December 7, 2024: Visiting will be closed from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
  • Sunday, December 8, 2024: Visiting will be closed from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW)

  • None at this time.
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Washington State Penitentiary (WSP)

  • None at this time.
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Community Facility & Office Alerts

Business Offices

  • None at this time.

Community Field Offices

  • None at this time.

Community Justice Centers

Reentry Centers

  • Effective September 30, 2024: The Bishop Lewis House Reentry Center in King County will officially close. All staff and residents of Bishop Lewis House Reentry Center were relocated to other facilities beginning in November 2023.
  • Two other King County reentry centers, Reynolds and Helen B. Ratcliff House, remain open to serve individuals transitioning to King and surrounding counties who are eligible and suitable for a reentry center pathway to home.
  • Monday, July 1, 2024: Individuals seeking placement at a Reentry Center from Pierce County are being screening and directed to Reentry Centers in King, Kitsap, Thurston, and Cowlitz counties.
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Sign-up for Emergency & Incident Alerts

The Department of Corrections (DOC) is now able to send you emergency alerts, as well as non-emergency incident alerts, via text message, email, pager, and/or voice mail.

  • Emergency Alerts: Could include hazards that require action be taken such as an evacuation, prison lock down, prison escapees, or other severe events.
  • Non-Emergency Incident Alerts Could include significant transportation problems with prolonged impacts, or significant ongoing Corrections exercises or other activity.

This system will not be used for routine informational notices (see Prison Facility Alerts & Notices for this information). Alerts are provided free of charge, however, standard text messaging rates and other charges may apply.

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