DOC plans to close Larch Corrections Center, a minimum-security 240-bed facility in southwest Washington in Yacolt, Clark County. The facility can be reopened later if the need arises, according to the agency, and its 115 staffers will be offered jobs at other corrections facilities in the state.
The announcement marks the first prison closure in Washington since the state shuttered McNeil Island Corrections Center in 2011, according to the statement, although some parts of the Monroe Correctional Complex were closed in 2021.
Washington’s prison population has declined in recent years, in part after more than 1,000 individuals were released during the pandemic as a public-health measure. Those released were not
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