Anthony Blankenship went into solitary confinement at the Pierce County Jail on suicide watch, despite not feeling suicidal.

The Washington State Department of Corrections manages 10 prisons across the state. These correctional facilities house inmates serving sentences after being convicted to murder, rape, theft, fraud ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - State prisons in the United States became more violent and nearly 50% deadlier over the past five years as authorities struggled to keep enough guards on the job, ...

There’s rising pressure to revisit the policy, one of the few exceptions to a law that blocks state and local agencies from assisting with immigration enforcement. Dozens of Democratic lawmakers in ...

A Washington female inmate is suing corrections officials, alleging a male-born prisoner attacked her under the state's ...