Coyote Ridge Corrections Center News

The state would downsize McNeil Island Corrections Center to less than half its current size to save money under a proposal from Gov.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- State Corrections officials will begin notifying employees at Ahtanum View Corrections Center in the next few weeks that they will be phased out of their jobs at the West Valley facility.

Photo by Explosive Illusions [enlarge] Security requirement for housing make some green building elements, like operable wind It's a formidable challenge to use green design on a medium-security prison campus, but the 21-building Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell recently became the first U.S. prison campus to get LEED gold certification.

The next time you're driving north on Highway 395, keep your eyes peeled for some giant wildflowers while passing Connell.

The Coyote Ridge Corrections Center is the nation's first green prison. The center today received LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, making it the first prison in the country to meet the council's standards for sustainable design, according to the Washington Department of Corrections.

The good -- perhaps even miraculous -- news for Scott McDonald, the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center inmate who was beaten nearly to death June 29, is that he is doing better now.

A Pasco man who lost his left eye after a brutal beating -- allegedly at the hands of his prison cellmate -- has awakened from a coma and is talking and eating, a family member said.

As Christine King of Pasco talked about the nearly 600 students from Columbia Basin College who recently received their GED certificates, she shook her head in amazement.

A Pasco man reportedly beaten by his prison cellmate this week was targeted for trying to turn his life around and do the right thing, his sister told the Herald.

A Pasco man behind bars for threatening to kill a man in a 2007 attempted robbery is now fighting for his life after his cellmate reportedly beat him with a smudge pot inside a pillow case.

An inmate at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center was flown to Seattle's Harborview Medical Center today after suffering a serious head injury during a prison fight on Monday.

Dwight McFarlane wasn't sure he'd make it. The single dad was working long hours at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center near Connell.

A Washington State Patrol bomb disposal unit detonated two suspicious packages delivered to the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center mailroom Wednesday, the prison reported.

A State Patrol bomb squad destroyed two suspicious packages delivered to the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center.