Three inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla — the state’s largest maximum-security prison — died of suicide this month, all within a six-day timeframe.
OLYMPIA A year ago COVID-19 swept through the state’s prisons. At Airway Heights Corrections Center, 92% of its population come down with the virus during the peak of the infections.
OLYMPIA State regulators have fined the Washington Department of Corrections $60,000 for failing to enforce COVID-19 protective measures at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen.