This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series A closer look at MOCA group of offenders has reached the fourth and final phase of Washington State Penitentiary’s Motivating Offender Change (MOC) program. The men, who had been placed in the Intensive Management Unit, prison’s highest level of custody, volunteered six months ago to participate. …
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Apr 29
Video: Motivational Interviewing can help ease interactions between officers and offenders
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series A closer look at MOCMotivational Interviewing is one of the newer techniques used by staff in the four prison pilot projects and in community corrections. Though most closely associated with counseling as a way to help offenders become less ambivalent about making changes in their lives or solving their …
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Apr 17
Audio: National expert on swift, certain sanctions: ‘Rest of the country has its eyes on Washington state’
Angela Hawken, Ph.D., an Associate Professor at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy, was recently in Washington state to study how the Department of Corrections uses swift and certain sanctions when offenders violate the terms of their community supervision. Hawken is a nationally recognized expert on the sanction model and has studied its use in …
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Apr 12
Video: A new approach to reducing gang-related violence in prisons
Washington State Penitentiary, which has a large population of gang-related offenders, has enacted a new strategy to deter and respond to assaults against staff, multi-man fights and assaults with weapons. Based on Boston’s highly successful community-based Operation Ceasefire, Operation Place Safety is the first of its kind in a prison setting.(For DOC staff only: If …
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Apr 10
Video: For first time, group programs in maximum custody
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series A closer look at MOCRival gang members talking politely with each other, respectful interactions with staff and fewer uses of force are among the successes of Washington State Penitentiary’s new program for offenders in the intensive management unit. At this highest level of custody, prison staff …
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Mar 26
A look inside success at Coyote Ridge
Visitors may not immediately see differences between the two pods of D Unit at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center, a medium-custody prison located near the Tri-Cities. In the right spot, they can see into B pod and neighboring A pod. In each, identical stainless steel tables dot the dayroom floor, offenders in khaki clothes enter and …
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Mar 18
KREM-TV: Airway Heights prison teaches inmates how to interact with others
The first Washington offenders to participate in a program designed to teach them about the links between their thoughts and behaviors recently graduated. The program, called Thinking for a Change, has been one component of pilot projects at Airway Heights Corrections Center and Coyote Ridge Corrections Center that started in spring 2012. Spokane’s KREM-TV covered the …
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Mar 18
News: Rival gang members meet face to face at state penitentiary
News organizations recently visited the Washington State Penitentiary to learn about the Motivating Offender Change (MOC) program, which is targeted to Security Threat Group — usually gang members — in the Intensive Management Unit. Offenders live in the same area and attend programs twice a week to learn to better control their anger and learn …
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Mar 12
Spokesman-Review: Washington prison program shows signs of cutting crime
The Spokesman-Review newspaper recently visited Airway Heights Corrections Center for an update on the pilot program in a medium-security pod. Here’s what it had to say: “A pilot program to correct the behavior of violent prison inmates at a cognitive level is helping keep the peace in one pod of the Airway Heights Corrections Center. …
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Mar 08
News: Pilot projects reduce prison violence
Three television news stations covered a recent milestone at a pilot project at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center. The pilot is one of two in medium-custody units — the other is at Airway Heights — designed to better incorporate evidence-based practices and program into the day-to-day operations in Washington prisons. Offenders in the pilot participated in …
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