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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)

  • Saturday December 14, 2024: All visiting (Main and MSU), including EFV check ins and check outs, will be closed at Airway Heights Corrections Center.
  • Starting December 2024 to accommodate visitors during major holidays, a change has been made to the visiting rotation schedule for the units. During the holiday weekends, starting Christmas weekend 2024, AHCC is going to ensure each unit gets to visit during the holiday weekends. After the holiday weekends AHCC will resume the normal rotation schedule. The holidays include Christmas, Easter, Father’s Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
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Cedar Creek Corrections Center (CCCC)

New Visiting Hours!

    Starting on Friday, November 15, 2024 the Cascade & Olympic Units will have visiting at the same time on Mondays and Fridays.

    The new visiting schedule will be as follows:

    • Mondays & Fridays: 1:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
    • Saturdays & Sundays: 10:00 a.m. – 6:45 p.m.

    Check in time will be:

    • Mondays & Fridays at 12:45 p.m.
    • Saturdays & Sundays at 9:45 a.m.
    • 2nd check in time for all days will be 3:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.

    Extended Family Visiting (EFV) check in will be at 11:00 a.m. Check out times for EFV will remain the same: 2:30 p.m. on Sundays and approximately 12:30 p.m. on Wednesdays. As these are new hours, we will monitor for several weeks and make adjustments as needed.

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Clallam Bay Corrections Center (CBCC)

  • None at this time.
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Coyote Ridge Corrections Center (CRCC)

  • December 7, 2024: No AM visitation for both MSU and MSC. Visiting will resume at 5:00 p.m. until close.
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Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women (MCCCW)

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

  • Sunday, December 8, 2024: TRU visiting will be closed 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, December 21, 2024: TRU visiting will be closed 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
  • Sunday, December 22, 2024: MSU visiting will be closed 12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Olympic Corrections Center (OCC)

  • None at this time.
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Stafford Creek Corrections Center (SCCC)

  • 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, 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)

  • Saturday, December 14, 2024: Visiting will be closed for morning session and will reopen for the evening session. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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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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