Olympic Corrections Center

olympic corrections center

11235 Hoh Mainline [Driving Directions]
Forks, WA 98331-9492
(360) 374-6181

Superintendent: John Aldana

Olympic Corrections Center (OCC) is located in the middle of a 120,000-acre block of Department of Natural Resources (DNR) trust land, which is about 25 miles south of Forks.  OCC is a minimum-security facility that includes three living units, laundry, warehouse, kitchen facilities, maintenance shop, a wastewater treatment plant and water supply system.  OCC employs 109 staff members.

Visiting an Offender

For the safety of all visitors, offenders and staff, we ask that you postpone your visit if you are experiencing flu-like symptoms. Thank you.

Need assistance with transportation? Contact Matthew House

Programs

Peninsula College provides basic education to offenders as well as information technology classes.  Offender change programs include Long Distance Dads, Moral Reconation Therapy, Relapse Prevention, Anger Stress Management, Thinking for a Change, MRT Domestic Violence, Partners in Parenting, Job Readiness - Industrial Safety, Human Relations, Job Hunter, Chemical Dependency Counseling and preparing for release.

Correctional Industries Programs

OCC work programs include kitchen, janitorial, camp maintenance, recreation, community service crews, and waste treatment operator.

Community Involvement

Almost half of OCC’s offenders work on crews with DNR that perform fire suppression, pre-commercial tree thinning and planting and restore trails and camp sites.  OCC also provides three offender crews to work on special community service projects to include cutting firewood for distribution to senior citizens, assisting the Department of Fish and Wildlife, maintaining grounds at the Forks Timber Museum, the Forks Visitor Center, the baseball parks at Forks and Beaver, and painting schools at Forks and Lake Quinault.  The Toy Shop at OCC produces many wood products such as replicas of logging trucks, tables, cabinets, cribs, rockers, and many other items that are auctioned for the Forks High School Scholarship program.  These items are very popular in the community and bring in almost $10,000 in scholarship dollars every year.

Facility History

Clearwater Honor Camp opened in August 1968, and Governor Dan Evans officially dedicated it in June 1969.  The facility initially housed 100 inmates.  Partnering with DNR, offenders reforested land as the timber was harvested.  In addition, various phases of road construction, pre-commercial thinning, and the production of cedar products for use by the DNR districts were carried out at the new Honor Camp.  In the early 1980’s, there were two separate facilities, Clearwater Correction Center (formally known as Clearwater Honor Camp), and the newer Olympic Correction Center.  In July 1991, Clearwater and Olympic Corrections Center became one facility with the addition of the Hoh Unit and was re-named Olympic Corrections Center.

This facility is accredited ACA logo

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