Programs By Facility

In 2025, Washington’s 10 prisons reported around 159 sustainability-related programs and named 208 partner organizations across the state. In 2026, programs continue to grow, adapt, and thrive. Scroll through the facilities below to see facility-specific highlights from the most recent annual report.

Washington State Facilities

Airway Heights
Corrections Center

Airway Heights hosts a wide range of sustainability programs including beekeeping, large-scale gardens producing food for kitchen use and donation, and composting. It refurbishes thousands of computers for local schools and runs dog training, firewood donation, pollinator habitat, waste sorting, and worm farming.

Cedar Creek
Corrections Center

Cedar Creek engages incarcerated technicians in beekeeping, northwestern pond turtle rehabilitation, large veggie and flower gardens, recycling and composting. It partners on veteran dog training, forestry skills, construction, and water management projects. Cedar Creek’s crews also contribute community service hours to local restoration and cleanup.

Clallam Bay
Corrections Center

Clallam Bay runs beekeeping, vegetable and flower gardens contributing food to local food banks, and a farmers market. They operate waste sorting, water catchment, wastewater treatment, and a cat adoption program. The facility emphasizes pollinator habitat and community recycling efforts.

Coyote Ridge
Corrections Center

Coyote Ridge’s programs include beekeeping and pollinator gardens, native plant and wildlife habitat restoration, and gardens producing food donated to pantries. It runs Ridge Dogs (an inmate-initiated pet program), service dog training, and composting. Land restoration and heritage garden projects honor local ecology.

Monroe Correctional
Complex

Monroe’s SPP programs include multiple beekeeping and gardening projects, nature imagery, and a cat care program. Incarcerated individuals gain skills in horticulture and animal care while contributing to facility sustainability efforts. The focus is on green operations and environmental engagement.

Olympic Corrections
Center

Olympic runs gardens, large-scale composting and recycling, wastewater treatment, solar power installations, firewood projects, community crews, and forestry work. These efforts support food production, renewable energy, conservation, and local service.

Stafford Creek
Corrections Center

Stafford Creek offers monthly environmental programs, beekeeping, a prairie conservation nursery project, and gardening and composting classes. It engages in large-scale composting, waste sorting, pollinator plantings, water catchment, bike repair, dog training, toy drives, and diverse sustainability arts and tech activities.

Washington
Corrections Center

Washington Corrections Center’s SPP programs include a world-class composting “bugs” project, beekeeping, prairie conservation, gardens, plant propagation, construction/service projects, dog training, chicken care, recycling, and environmental workshops. These initiatives blend sustainability with vocational training.

Washington Corrections
Center for Women

WCCW offers monthly environmental programs, a prairie conservation nursery program, gardening and pollinator planting with community partners, and beekeeping. It includes a Prison Pet Partnership, quilting and crafts supporting wildlife rescue, and waste sorting/recycling. Programs aim to build skills and community ties.

Washington State
Penitentiary

Washington State Penitentiary hosts the Sustainable Practices Lab (SPL) with many programs including gardening, composting, recycling, carpentry, furniture repair, aquaponics, and beekeeping. It also has a large institutional garden, waste diversion efforts, community crews, and the Sagebrush Steppe Ecological Conservation Program.

Closed Facilities

Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women

Mission Creek led conservation with a Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly rearing program and beekeeping, plus vegetable and flower gardens used in kitchens and pollinator habitat. It hosted animal programs (Pawsitive Prison Project), small-scale composting, water catchment, and bird habitat work.