Olympic Corrections Center

Olympic Corrections Center (OCC)
Location in Washington
Location Forks
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 381
Opened 1968
Managed by Washington State Department of Corrections
Warden Jason Bennett, Superintendent
Street address 11235 Hoh Mainline
City Forks
County Jefferson County
State Washington
ZIP Code 98331
Country United States
Website www.doc.wa.gov/corrections/incarceration/prisons/occ.htm

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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