Olympic Corrections Center

Olympic Corrections Center
Location Forks, Washington
Coordinates 47°43′09″N 124°08′11″W / 47.71917°N 124.13639°W / 47.71917; -124.13639Coordinates: 47°43′09″N 124°08′11″W / 47.71917°N 124.13639°W / 47.71917; -124.13639
Status Operational
Security class Minimum
Capacity 380 as of June 2008
Opened 1968, 48 years ago
Managed by Washington State Department of Corrections
Director John Aldana

The Olympic Corrections Center is located in Jefferson County, west of Olympic National Park. It is within the service area of the Forks, Washington, post office, even though it is not close to that city. It is a minimum security facility. Inmates there often work fighting forest fires during the summer, assisting the Department of Natural Resources in clearing and planting trees.

Speciality Inmate crews supervised by Custody and Corrections Officers also help the local communities by providing yard work at senior centers, paint schools (during summer when the children are absent), and other services in the vicinity of the facility.

On October 31, 2011 authorities at Olympic CC entered into a contract with McDougall & Sons orchard[1] in Quincy, Grant County to use 105 inmates to pick apples for that company. McDougall agreed to pay corrections officials $22.00 per hour per inmate for the labor.

The camp is located in Jefferson County, on Hoh Mainline Road north of Clearwater, Washington.

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References

  1. ↑ "105 inmates picking apples in Grant County". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2012-04-14.


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