Facility
A Segregation unit (Cell Block 3) provides about 80 beds for inmates who need to be temporarily removed from the general population.
WSRU has an inpatient hospital that can also be used by other correctional facilities within the state. Major medical care can often be performed here, but serious surgical procedures are performed in community hospitals.
Vocational classes offered at WSRU include printing, information technology and personal computer support specialist, and inmates can earn a GED or community college associates degree while incarcerated at WSRU.
A staff-supervised Youth Program is offered to high school and middle school students. It is designed to deter students from becoming involved in a criminal lifestyle by meeting selected inmates who tell them about the choices they made which led to their incarceration.
Class II and III jobs are located within WSRU. Class III jobs provide essential services to the facility such as maintenance, janitorial, clerical warehouse workers, and kitchen work. Class II jobs are designed to reduce the cost of goods and services to state agencies and other tax-supported entities. These include laundry services, a print shop, a license tab shop, and the panel program. Class I industries were once housed at WSRU, but were eliminated in July 2004 as a result of a Washington Supreme Court decision that held that inmates can not be employed by private commercial enterprises.
Inmates have access to classification and mental health counselors at WSRU, in addition to a wide range of paid and volunteer staff.
Additionally, the other four facilities are Minimum Security Unit (MSU), Twin Rivers Unit (TRU), Special Offenders Unit (SOU), and Intensive Management Unit IMU. To clarify: Monroe Correctional Complex; (MCC) comprises these five Prisons. Each within its own perimeter. And seldom will they mix. Normally Offenders from one prison are not allowed to enter inside the perimeter of any other facility.
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