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Olympic Corrections Center
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Olympic Corrections Center is a state prison located in Jefferson County, Washington. Rated capacity: 381. Reported population: 392. Security level: Minimum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
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.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
381
Current population
392
Occupancy
103%
Year opened
1968
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 2 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1968
Region
Washington
Security level
Minimum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
- Overcrowding
- 5/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Operating at 103% of design capacity
This facility scores 5. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 3 points above national average.
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Same country, matched on type + security level where possible.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersData completeness
74%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q7089056)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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World Prisons. (2026). Olympic Corrections Center. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/olympic-corrections-center
"Olympic Corrections Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/olympic-corrections-center.
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urldate = {2026-10-20}
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