
Programs By Facility
In 2024, Washington’s 11 prisons reported around 162 sustainability-related programs and named 151 partner organizations across the state. In 2025, programs continue to grow, adapt, and thrive. Scroll through the tables that follow on this page for a summary snapshot of all programs statewide as of the end of 2024, or click a facility on the bulleted list for its highlights as of the end of 2024. Note that due to partner reporting capacity constraints, some programs and partnerships may not be represented here.

Program Highlights
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, western 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 animal programs including dog and cat adoption. 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 minimum-security 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. Monroe’s SPP programs include multiple beekeeping.
Olympic Corrections
Center
Olympic runs extensive garden programs with partner colleges and tribes, 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 environmental workshops, beekeeping, prairie conservation nursery projects, and gardening 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. Stafford Creek offers environmental workshops.
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 runs environmental workshops, prairie conservation nursery work, 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 a broad 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 Conservation Program.
The Facilities Are Closed
Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women
Mission Creek leads conservation with a Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly rearing program and beekeeping, plus vegetable and flower gardens used in kitchens and pollinator habitat. It hosts animal programs (Pawsitive Prison Project), small-scale composting, water catchment, and bird habitat work.


