United States · WA · Aberdeen
Stafford Creek Corrections Center
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Stafford Creek Corrections Center is a state prison located in Grays Harbor County, Washington. Rated capacity: 1,972. Reported population: 1,979. Security level: Maximum. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
Stafford Creek Corrections Center (SCCC) is a Washington State Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Aberdeen, Washington. The facility opened in 2000, has an operating capacity of 1936 inmates, and supports a mix of minimum, medium, and maximum security levels. Stafford is one of a number of Washington prisons with an environmental program developed in conjunction with The Evergreen State College. Inmates plant gardens (though health code restrictions are still being reviewed, preventing the food from being utilized in the institution kitchen), help restore protected wetlands by raising seedlings in prison greenhouses, and similar programs.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
1,936
Current population
1,979
Occupancy
102%
Year opened
2000
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
2000
Region
WA
Security level
Medium
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 102% 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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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
- Washington DOC — Prisons
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Washington DOC — Prisons — Washington State Department of Corrections
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- USGS National Map structures — U.S. Geological Survey
- Wikidata (Q16900656)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Stafford Creek Corrections Center. Retrieved October 23, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/stafford-creek-corrections-center
"Stafford Creek Corrections Center." World Prisons. Accessed October 23, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/stafford-creek-corrections-center.
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