United States · WA · Gig Harbor
Washington Corrections Center for Women
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Washington Corrections Center For Women is a state prison located in Pierce County, Washington. Rated capacity: 764. Reported population: 987. Security level: Close. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Capacity
853
Current population
987
Occupancy
116%
Year opened
1971
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 16 Jun 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
female
Opened
1971
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.
Notable inmates
- Mary Kay Letourneau1962–2020 · school teacher
Mary Katherine Fualaau (previously Letourneau, née Schmitz; January 30, 1962 â July 6, 2020) was an American teacher who pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child and subsequently married her victim/former student.
- Barbara Opel1963
Barbara Marie Opel is an American woman convicted of paying a group of teenagers to murder a 64-year-old man with terminal cancer in 2001.
Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.
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 116% 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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- ASPC - PerryvilleGoodyearMediumMedium Security238% occupancy
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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
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- Washington DOC — Prisons — Washington State Department of Corrections
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- USGS National Map structures — U.S. Geological Survey
- Wikidata (Q25001100)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Washington Corrections Center for Women. Retrieved October 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/washington-corrections-center-for-women
"Washington Corrections Center for Women." World Prisons. Accessed October 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/washington-corrections-center-for-women.
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