Washington Corrections Center

W 2321 Dayton Airport Rd [Driving Directions]
Post Office Box 900 washington corrections center
Shelton, WA 98584
(360) 426-4433

Superintendent: Doug Waddington

Washington Corrections Center (WCC) is located on a 400-acre site four miles west of Shelton.  WCC is comprised of the Reception and Diagnostic Center, the Training Center and the Intensive Management Unit (IMU).  The Reception and Diagnostic Center is comprised of seven living units and houses 1,200 offenders.  It is a close-custody facility with the primary responsibility to process, test, and classify all adult male felons sentenced to prison in Washington State, except for those sentenced to capital punishment.  WCC currently employs 650 staff members.

Visiting an Offender

For hours, rules and and other facility specific visiting procedures (such locker availability) review Visiting Rules [en Espanol].   To request to be added to an offenders visiting list you can print and mail in the Visiting Form or have the offender send you a form in the mail.

If a holiday occurs on visiting days (Fri. Sat. Sun. or Mon.), then we have visiting. If the holiday occurs on non-visiting days (Thanksgiving for example) there is usually no visiting.

Offender Population

Current statistics are found in DOC's monthly brochure.

Facility History

Construction on WCC began in February 1962.  In November 1964, it opened as a facility for young first-time offenders who were convicted of non-violent crimes and needed academic or vocational education.  The IMU was built in 1984 to house 124 maximum-security offenders who pose serious behavior or management problems, require disciplinary action, or pose a threat to others.

Programs

Garrett Heyns Educational Center partners with Centralia College to offer basic education programs at WCC.  In addition, chemical dependency treatment, offender change groups, recreation programs, library, Correctional Industries, and greenhouse are available to all Training Center offenders.  Because of the transitional nature of Reception and Diagnostic Center, work programs are limited for those offenders.

Complete list of programs

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