Washington state has tried to impose standards on a migrant detention center in Tacoma. Private prison company GEO Group says ...

KUOW looked into who is at risk of deportation in Washington state: how many immigrants are here without legal status, where they immigrated from, what type of jobs they do, and more.

A Michigan man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for traveling to sexually abuse a minor who lived in Washington.

Sabrina Rodriguez is a national politics reporter for The Washington Post. She chronicles the evolving demographics in battleground states and the ways candidates, campaigns and interest groups ...

The state’s Office of Financial Management said it operates 11 reentry centers, most of which are less than half full due to ...

She is flanked by the prison’s former acting superintendent, Danielle Medbury, who was removed from the position by Hochul, and state corrections Commissioner Daniel F. Martuscello III.

It appears Shapiro’s administration began notifying stakeholders of the decision Monday morning, before the state Department of Corrections made its proposal public. “I don’t know what to ...

The Department of Corrections also announced the closure of two state-run Community Corrections Centers: Wernersville CCC in Berks County and Progress CCC in Waynesburg, Greene County. Officials ...

It hasn’t stopped crime,” said Kat Brady, coordinator of the Community Alliance on Prisons. OCCC is the state’s largest jail with an original design capacity of 628 beds and an operational ...

It’s there the beating begins. Vicious blows are delivered by a state corrections officer in glasses, his baseball cap turned backward catcher-style, so it won’t get in the way.

An inmate at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Center near Otay Mesa allegedly attacked an officer with an “improvised weapon” on Sunday evening, state corrections officials said. Nelson Barrera ...