The Washington State Department of Corrections ( WADOC ) is the state department of Washington. WADOC is responsible for managing adult correction programs operated by the State of Washington. This includes state penitentiaries and programs for people being supervised in the community. Its headquarters are in Tumwater.
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Histori
The modern Washington Department of Corrections is a relatively young state institution. The supervision of prison agencies in the State of Washington underwent several transitions during the 20th century before the creation of WADOC in 1981.
Prior to the 1970s, state correctional facilities were administered by the Washington Department of Institutions. Governor Daniel J. Evans consolidates the Department of Institutions, the Ministry of Public Affairs & Vocational Rehabilitation, and other relevant departments into the Washington Department of Health and Social Services (DSHS) in the 1970s.
On July 1, 1981, the Washington State Legislature moved the administration of adult prisons from the Washington Department of Social Affairs and Health Services, the Adult Correction Division (DSHS) to the newly formed Washington State Department of Corrections as part of the 1981. Correction of the Reform Law.
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Organizational structure
The organizational structure of the Washington Department of Corrections includes five major divisions:
- Prison
- Community Correction
- Administrative Services
- Health Services
- Offender Changes
- Executive Policy
Each division has an Assistant Secretary who oversees the operations of the division.
The Correction Secretary is the department's chief executive. The Secretary is appointed by the Governor with the approval of the state Senate.
Department facilities
Prison
The Department currently operates 12 adult prisons, of which 10 are male and 2 female institutions. The Department limits more than 16,000 people in these facilities, with each size and mission varying across the state.
Job releases
The department currently has 16 work release facilities. All but two of these facilities are operated by contractors, who manage daily security and security and oversee facilities on a full-time basis (24 hours a day, 7 days per week). Departmental staff are on site to assist in monitoring, monitoring and case management for those under supervision, as well as contract monitoring.
Beforehand the prisoners placed in the work release facility had progressed from full cage to solitary confinement, and were asked to seek, secure and keep jobs in the community, and pay for their rooms and meals. This model is designed to provide some foundation for work and housing when previously imprisoned is released into the community. However, the symposium of the Washington Supreme Court Ownership and Justice Commission revealed that resources for reentry for people previously jailed in Washington State are still very under-funded and disconnected.
Office field
Community oversight takes place in various locations in the community to include: field offices, community justice centers, Community-Driven Policing Stores (COPs) and outstations places. The activities of people being monitored in the community are monitored, including home visits, by the Community Correction Officer to ensure compliance with the courts, otherwise known as the Uncertainty Judgment Review Panel, which is the Washington State Council of Prisons and Screening (ISRB) persons deemed to have been rehabilitated by the ISRB placed under Parole and Department control conditions, such as Community Monitoring and/or Community Custody.
Death row
In 2014, Governor Jay Inslee announced a moratorium on executing the death penalty in Washington State. According to Inslee, "equal justice under the law is the primary responsibility of the state, and in the case of the death penalty I am not sure the same justice is being served.The use of capital punishment in this country is not evenly applied, sometimes depending on local budgets in where the crime occurred. "The moratorium means that if a death sentence case comes to the governor's table for action, it will issue a reprieve. However, this action does not alter the punishment of persons convicted in death or issuing any forgiveness. The majority of Washington's death sentences were sentenced and those convicted of capital offenses were rarely executed, suggesting that punishment is questionable in many cases. Since 1981, this year the state capital law of Washington has been enacted, 32 defendants have been sentenced to death. Of them, 18 have changed their sentence to life in prison and one is released.
Prior to the Inslee moratorium, Washington's death sentence law required that the death penalty imposed by state courts be conducted at the Washington Correctional Institution in Walla Walla. The procedure for execution is supervised by the Penitentiary Inspector. Washington uses two methods of execution: deadly and hanging injections. Deadly injections are used unless prisoners under capital punishment choose hanging as the preferred method of execution.
Within 10 days of the courts entering the courts and the sentences handed down the death penalty, male defendants under the death penalty were transferred to the Penitentiary, where they remained in the separation unit [Northern Intensive Management Unit (IMU-N) in prison] pending requests and until the death warrant issued a date setting for execution. The defendant of women under the death penalty was placed at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor before being transferred to the Penitentiary no later than 72 hours before the scheduled execution, also at the Northern IMU, even though the execution room is located in Unit 6.
78 people have been executed in Washington since 1904, most recently being Cal Coburn Brown, in 2010.
Industrial Correction
The Washington Department of Correction that generates revenue, industry job training, and factory food production branches is Washington State Correctional Industries. It is a member of the National National Industries Association.
The Penitentiary industry began to focus on food production at the Airway Heights Correctional Center in 1995. In the years since, freshly cooked food for people jailed in Washington prison gradually and largely replaced by processed factories, packaged foods.
Personal Contract
Personal Jail
On May 21, 2015, the GEO Group announced the signing of a contract with the Washington Disposal Department for offshore housing that holds up to 1,000 detainees at the company's North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan, with a five-year contract term including an extended renewal period.
Food Vendor
Under the Washington Breastfood contract, WA DOC's Prison received products from the American Food Service, Liberty Distribution, Medosweet Plantation, Spokane Production, Terry Dairy, Triple Company "B", and Unisource. WA DOC also contracts with Evergreen Vending, Coca-Cola, and other private food vendors for vending machines.
Communications
DOC WA contract with JPay, a private company that charges money for imprisonment and their family for electronic mail, photo sharing, money transfer, and video visit services. Phone service for prison and their families through WA DOC contract with Global Tel Link.
Secretary of Correction
The Secretary of Corrections in the State of Washington is a cabinet-level position appointed by a state governor. This position is different from the Washington Department of Department's historic director in terms of his education. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Washington law mandated that the Director of the Institution Department be required to hold a bachelor's degree. The modern Washington Department of Corrections does not have such a requirement for its Correction Secretary.
Amos Reed
Amos Reed, appointed by Governor John Spellman, served as the first Washington State Secretary of Corruption from 1981 to 1986.
Prior to his position as Secretary, Reed served as administrator of the Oregon Department of Corrections from 1969-1975.
Chase Riveland
Chase Riveland was appointed Secretary of Corrections by Governor Booth Gardner in 1986. He retired in 1997. Riveland invited critics of Republican lawmakers who felt he was not harsh enough against those who were imprisoned. However, Riveland's warning against politically-driven policies has proved true in the decades of mass detention following his time as Secretary. In 2008, the number of people jailed in Washington has more than tripled since the day Riveland first came to WADOC.
Joseph D. Lehman
Joe Lehman is a graduate of St. Martin College and Pacific Lutheran University. He spent 21 years as a probation and parole officer and deputy secretary in the Washington prison system. Lehman was appointed Secretary of Corrections by Governor Gary Locke in 1997, and served until 2005. Prior to serving as WADOC Secretary, Lehman oversaw the largest prison expansion in Pennsylvania in state history and then worked for the Maine's penitentiary system. In 1994, Lehman won the Association of State Correctional Administrators Francke Award. Lehman's initial salary as WADOC Secretary is $ 93,659 He oversees WADOC when the Department has a budget of $ 765 million, with 12,825 jailed and 6,300 employees]
Harold Clarke
Harold Clarke, appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire, served as Secretary of Corrections from 2005 until his resignation at the end of 2007. Prior to his appointment, he directed the Nebraska Correction Department, where he has been promoted for over twenty years. He resigned as WADOC Secretary amid controversy over his probationary oversight to take on the position of commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections.
Eldon Vail
Eldon Vail returned from retirement after 31 years with WADOC to serve as Acting Secretary of Corrections until his official appointment as Secretary by Governor Christine Gregoire in 2008. Vail resigned amid controversy over relationships with a subordinate in 2011.
Bernard Warner
Bernard Warner was appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire as Secretary of Corrections in 2011. Warner resigned in 2015 to take a position in a personal correction industry in Salt Lake City.
And Pacholke
Governor Jay Inslee appointed Dan Pacholke Secretary of Corrections in 2015. Pacholke started his career at WADOC in 1982 as a correctional officer at McNeil Island Corrections Center. He works through the rank until appointed as Secretary. Pacholke resigned after a brief tenure amid controversy over WADOC computer errors that led to the early release of about 3,000 people jailed for more than a decade. Some previously jailed people who had built a new life after being released early, were interred in response to public and political condemnation of early releases. The early release scandal became a more complex expression of political relations in anticipation of the 2016 Washington State election season. In a resignation email to Senator Mike Padden - one of the most conservative members of the Washington State Senate Senate and Justice Committee - Pacholke wrote, "I'm telling you now about my resignation.I hope it helps meet your needs for blood.I hope it gives you food for the press and fulfills your political needs so you can let this agency, our agents, heal. "Former Correction Secretary Bernie Warner told the media that he did not know about computer errors until was told by Governor Jay Inslee's general counsel. However, Pacholke told the media that Warner's assistant secretary knew about the preliminary early detention of prisoners in early 2012. At least two people were killed in murders related to prisoners who had been mistakenly released early, and the relatives of the deceased in each case went on to file charges the wrong law against the agent. One such lawsuit resulted in $ 3.25 million in payments paid by the DOC.
Since leaving WADOC, Pacholke became co-director of Segregation Solutions. He has written a report with Sandy Felkey ​​Mullins about the practice of separation for the US Department of Defense Judicial Bureau entitled "More Than Empty Beds: System Approach to Segregation Reform".
Richard Morgan
Richard "Dick" Morgan returned from retirement after more than three decades working with WA DOC to be appointed by Governor Jay Inslee as acting secretary, effective March 14, 2016. He served as secretary until January 12, 2017. Morgan has previously served as a member of the Sentence Review Board Not Concerned and from the Washington Coalition for the Elimination of Death Penalty.
Jody Becker-Green
Former Washington State Department of Health and Services employee Jody Becker-Green was appointed by Governor Jay Inslee as acting secretary from January 10, 2017 to April 25, 2017, becoming the first woman to serve in this role.
Stephen Sinclair
Stephen Sinclair was appointed Secretary of WA DOC by Governor Jay Inslee on April 25, 2017. Sinclair has worked in WA DOC for 28 years. She last served as assistant secretary of the prison division. He began his career in the agency as a penitentiary and gained ever greater responsibilities as an investigator, sergeant, associate inspector, inspector and assistant secretary.
As inspector of the Washington Correctional Institution, Sinclair created the Sustainable Practice Lab. In addition to his role as secretary, Stephen Sinclair is the DOC co-director of Sustainability in Prisons Project at The Evergreen State College.
Staff
Paramilitary culture
WADOC is a paramilitary organization and values ​​the chain of command and seniority. The department recruited many correctional staff from Joint Base Lewis-McChord career exhibition.
Unions
The non-management position in Washington Department of Correction was negotiated by the local union of Teamster 117.
Guardian of Honor
The WADOC Honor Guard Protocol is governed by WADOC Policy 870.440. Individual WADOC facilities are not required to retain the Honorary Watchman. In 2013, only five of the 12 WADOC facilities maintain an active Honor Watchman. The facility supervisor and the Chief Operating Officer are responsible for selecting Honor Guard members and agreeing to the participation of Rescue Honor at local events.
Duty deathline
According to the Officer Down Memorial Page website, since the inception of what is currently Washington State Department of Corrections, six employees have been killed in duty.
The most notorious duty death in WADOC's recent history is that of Jayme Biendl in 2011. This tragedy has been called the "Cleanup Department of Washington 9-11", as it resulted in dramatic changes to the WADOC protocol and security program for imprisoned people. The Behind the Badge memorial event was held in honor of the Biendl service.
Primary issues
In 2012, WADOC correctional officers advise to improve uniforms in accordance with uniform standards of other Washington law enforcement agencies. Prior to 2012, prison officers' uniforms were made by people imprisoned in industrial jobs. It provides 100 jobs for imprisoned people, as well as eight supervisory correctional positions. Officer Carl Beatty is a public spokesman for switching to a uniform made by an outside producer, with the result that House Bill 2346 was ratified at the 2012 State Regular Legislative Session. The bill abolished the requirement that a prison uniform come from a Penitentiary. WA DOC Policy 870,400 list of detailed requirements for staff uniforms.
Ombudsman
In 2007, the Washington Volunteer Religious Society (Quaker) spearheaded a legislative effort to create an independent ombudsman position that would provide an alternative way of mediation between WADOC, WADOC staff, imprisoned people, and imprisoned family members. The resulting bill, SB 5295 - sponsored by State Senators Jim Kastama, Dan Swecker, Karen Fraser, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Chris Marr, Debbie Regala, Marilyn Rasmussen, and Rosemary McAuliffe - was unsuccessful. In later years, many other community groups have added their support for these legislative efforts. The yearly effort to pass an independent ombudsman bill begins in 2013 with SB 5177, sponsored by Senators Mike Carrell and Steve Conway. In 2014, Conway Senators Jeannie Darneille, Steve O'Ban, Jeanne Kohl-Welles and Annette Cleveland sponsored SB 6399. In 2015, Senators Jeannie Darneille, Rosemary McAuliffe, Jeanne Kohl-Welles, Steve O'Ban, Maralyn Chase , Bob Hasegawa, Karen Keizer, Kirk Pearson, Steve Conway, and David Frockt sponsored SB 5505, with Representatives of Luis Moscoso, Roger Goodman, Eric Pettigrew, Sherry Appleton, Tina Orwall, Timm Ormsby, and Laurie Jinkins sponsoring the 2005 HB colleagues bill.
In the 2016 legislative session, Senators Mark Miloscia, Christine Rolfes, Kirk Pearson, Steve O'Ban, Steve Conway, and Rosemary McAuliffe sponsored SB 6154 failed, with Representatives of Luis Moscoso, Eric Pettigrew, Sherry Appleton, Tina Orwall, David Sawyer, Cindy Ryu , Derek Stanford, Gerry Pollet, Teri Hickel, Steve Bergquist, and Sharon Tomiko Santos sponsored the HB 2817 companion.
In the legislative session of 2017-2018, the bill of ombudsman, HB 1889, passed the two legislative assemblies.
WADOC opposes this legislative effort. By 2016, WADOC creates its own internal ombudsman position. Carlos Lugo, who previously worked on a special WADOC project on access to visits for those imprisoned in Latino, was hired as the first WADOC ombudsman.
Contraband
The WADOC Intelligence and Investigation Unit asked the FBI to engage in employee smuggling and smuggling investigations at the Monroe Wectoc smuggling complex in December 2015. A prison officer was arrested on September 29, 2016. FBI agents decided that officers took bribes from above to $ 1,000 to smuggle smuggled into jail.
In August 2016, a 23-year-old man jailed at the Monroe Correctional Complex died of a drug overdose, causing statewide new concerns about smuggling entering WADOC prison.
Sustainability in Prison Project
At the Cedar Creek Correction Center in 2003, the Washington State Department of Corruption and The Evergreen State College established Sustainability in the Prison Project (SPP). And Pacholke was the supervisor of the Cedar Creek Surveillance Center at the time, and began a composting and catchment program to save money and create meaningful jobs for men jailed at minimum security facilities. Dr Nalini Nadkarni, a faculty member at Evergreen, asked the jailed people to join him in a study to grow native moss, and Cedar Creek welcomed his proposal. From here, the partnership between Evergreen and WADOC is strengthened and expanded. In the decade plus since then, the SPP has progressed to several other WADOC prisons. The jailed person lifts the endangered species and performs an impressive composting operation using recycled construction materials.
Main event Chronology
- 1981 - New Corrections Department was created to supervise prisons previously overseen by the Department of Social Services and Health.
- 1984 - The Penal Code of Review (SRA) overhauls the country's criminal code.
- 1995 - Fixed food production factory manufacturing center begins at Airway Heights Correctional Center.
- 2000s - The jailed person must order a food package from some preferred contract vendor instead of the local grocery store.
- 2003 - DOC and Evergreen State College collaborate to find Sustainability in Prison Project
- 2009 - The jailed person must wear a uniform instead of a personal dress.
- 2011 - The fall of officer Jayme Biendl's duty raises attention to security.
- 2015 - State Senate passes SB 5650, establishing a medical subaccount from a WADOC deduction to a jailed person's personal account.
- 2016 - WADOC hires an internal ombudsman. Secretary Dick Morgan publicly stated that WADOC would stop using the word "offender".
See also
- List of law enforcement agencies in Washington
- A list of U.S. state prisons
- List of United States correction bodies
References
External links
- Official website
- Washington State Correctional Industries
- doc.wa.gov
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