The Washington State Department of Corrections, DOC, publishes its Incarcerated Search to improve public safety: a DOC number or a name, with no special characters other than hyphens and apostrophes, browses the currently incarcerated individuals, and the listing gives each person's DOC number, name, age, location and housing assignment, from a unit and cell at the Washington State Penitentiary to Graduated Reentry, Extraordinary Medical Placement or a county public safety complex. Everything on it is subject to the agency's disclaimer and terms of use, and the department takes requests for more information about current and former incarcerated individuals and supervisees. The same page sends people to WA VINE, the statewide Victim Notification Network, to register for custody status changes and protective order changes.
Beside the search sit the Secretary's Warrants: under RCW 9.94A.716 the Secretary may issue a warrant for anyone who violates a condition of community custody, authorizing any officer in any state to arrest and confine the person, and under RCW 9.94A.685 the department issues an indefinite warrant for any alien incarcerated individual released to immigration authorities for deportation before completing the term. A violation warrant open more than 60 days moves the person to inactive supervision and publishes the identifying information in the Warrant Search, with tips to (866) 359-1939 or the department's form and a warning never to approach anyone wanted. A person held in a county jail is the county's record, found through the Washington county pages.
- Search: the Incarcerated Search by DOC number or name for anyone now in custody, with facility and housing on the list; the six digit DOC number it gives goes on every letter, account and visit application.
- Visits: an electronic visitor application for each person, processed in order in up to 45 business days with no status requests, one application only, and an email when done; photo ID at 18, first come first served in the visit room, searches under DOC 420.340, one approved list per visitor with one exception, and video visits through Securus at least 24 hours ahead in 30 minute blocks.
- Calls and mail: calls through Securus on the individual's PIN with no application for the receiver and no three way or forwarded calls; letters by USPS, UPS or FedEx with the full name, six digit DOC number and facility address and a return address with a last name, never cash, checks or stamps.
- Money: Securus Debit, Western Union with city code WA DOC, state WA and the account number made of the DOC number plus the last name exactly as booked, or a cashier's check or money order, the cheapest route, marked for the spendable, postage, medical, education or commissary sub account; deposits carry the deductions RCW 72.09.480 requires.
Written by SearchSystems.net from Washington's own systems: the Washington State Department of Corrections Incarcerated Search, the department's Secretary's Warrants page, the department's Prisons Map, the department's Monroe Correctional Complex page, the department's Airway Heights Corrections Center page, the department's Prison Visits page, the department's Video Visits page, the department's Phone Calls page, the department's Send Mail page, the department's Send Money page, the department's Securus Services page, the department's Blake Decision Refunds page, each read on October 14, 2026 by the SearchSystems editorial team.
The ten prisons
The prisons map lists ten facilities with addresses and numbers: Airway Heights Corrections Center at 11919 W. Sprague Avenue, Airway Heights, (509) 244-6700, opened in 1992 with a capacity of 2,258 at minimum, minimum MI3 and medium custody; Cedar Creek Corrections Center at 12200 Bordeaux Road, Littlerock, (360) 359-4100; Clallam Bay Corrections Center at 1830 Eagle Crest Way, (360) 203-1500; Coyote Ridge Corrections Center at 1301 N Ephrata Avenue, Connell, (509) 543-5800; Monroe Correctional Complex at 16550 177th Avenue SE, Monroe, (360) 794-2600, opened in 1910 with a capacity of 2,400 from maximum to minimum custody, whose Minimum Security Unit holds 468 people serving four years or less and the Crossroads mental health program and whose Washington State Reformatory unit dropped advance scheduling of visits on September 18, 2026; Olympic Corrections Center at 11235 Hoh Mainline, Forks, (360) 374-7000; Stafford Creek Corrections Center at 191 Constantine Way, Aberdeen, (360) 537-1800; Washington Corrections Center at 2321 West Dayton Airport Road, Shelton, (360) 426-4433; the Washington Corrections Center for Women at 9601 Bujacich Road NW, Gig Harbor, (253) 858-4200; and the Washington State Penitentiary at 1313 North 13th Avenue, Walla Walla, (509) 525-3610.
Each facility page carries its alerts and visit closures, its visitor guidelines, hours by unit and an event calendar, and the Lodging and Transportation Assistance Program gives a qualifying visitor one $100 allowance per incarcerated individual each month toward the trip.
Visiting: the application, the room and the video
Every proposed visitor, adult or minor, submits a separate electronic visit application, the only kind the department accepts, with the documents ready beforehand; applications are processed in the order received and may take up to 45 business days, the department asks not to be called for status and cannot give dates, a second application voids the first and restarts the clock, and approval arrives by email, so the department says not to book travel until it does.
Under DOC 450.300 a visitor 18 and older shows a valid current photo ID, international visitors a passport; in person visits run first come, first served, with the room's capacity, emergencies that cancel visits without notice, searches under DOC 420.340 and a request to stay home when sick. A visitor may be on only one incarcerated individual's approved list, with one exception, the list follows a transfer in the statewide visit system, every visit is logged, and staff may record a visitor's behavior, which the visitor can request through a public records request; restrictive housing visits are non contact under DOC 320.255, and special visits go on form DOC 21-787 at the superintendent's discretion.
Monroe's main units check visitors in from noon on a rotating Friday to Monday schedule with visits to 7:30 p.m., its minimum unit splits afternoon and evening sessions, and Airway Heights runs 12:30 to 8:30 p.m. on its rotating days with security management unit visits booked at (509) 244-6700 extension 16159 and limited by program level to one two hour visit a week, one three hour visit, or four hours. Video visits, available at every prison, use the same application: an approved visitor opens a Securus account with the individual's DOC number and a name and date of birth matching legal ID, schedules at least 24 hours ahead in 30 minute increments on a first come basis, supplies the computer, webcam and connection, and is recorded and monitored; a visit that admits someone not approved costs the privilege, and an incarcerated person is not excused from work or programming to take one.
Calls, email and media
The department contracts with Securus for phones under DOC 450.200. No application or verification is needed to receive calls; every incarcerated individual has a PIN that starts each call and makes the person responsible for it, and friends and family fund accounts without knowing it. Three way calling and call forwarding are prohibited, calls are monitored and recorded except legal calls to a number the state bar recognizes, a TDD is available for hearing and speech disabilities, and in a family emergency the superintendent may allow a supervised call on a non PIN state line.
Email runs through Securus eMessaging, delivered on the facility's schedule and screened like paper mail, with 30 second VideoGrams attached and non English messages translated on the system; stamp packages cost $2.00 for 6, $5.00 for 20 and $7.50 for 35, and a Securus Debit account, owned by the individual and funded by family, pays for calls, stamps, tablet music, games and movies and Video Connect sessions, though not commissary.
Mail: the six digit number and legal mail
Mail travels only by the Postal Service, UPS or FedEx, must hold correspondence or property for the addressed person alone, and may be limited in volume, length, content or source for security; cash, personal checks and stamps are rejected and returned at the individual's expense. The envelope carries the full name, the six digit DOC number and the correct facility address, the living unit optionally, and a return address with an identifiable last name, and the letters inside are addressed to the same person.
Outgoing mail shows the committed name, DOC number, cell assignment and facility and is stamped as mailed by an incarcerated individual with uncensored contents; incarcerated individuals may not mail postcards. Legal mail under DOC 450.100 must come from or go to courts and court staff, the attorney of record in a filed case, the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board, established legal groups such as the ACLU or Disability Rights Washington, the President or Vice President, members of Congress, embassies and consulates, the Department of Justice, the state Attorneys General, governors, state legislators, law enforcement in official capacity, the Tort Claims Division or the PREA Unit, be marked Legal Mail or Attorney/Client on the front, and hold paper only; it is opened in the individual's presence, an inadvertent opening is initialed, public disclosure units and eMessages do not qualify, and outgoing legal mail is sealed and logged in front of the employee.
Non English mail is reviewed by a certified translator or a contracted vendor, and anything removed brings a form 05-525 Mail Restriction Notice with a right of appeal.
Money: three routes and the sub accounts
Money goes to the individual's trust account three ways, and the department recommends an electronic one, since paper money orders are processed on site and can be delayed. Securus Debit funds the Securus services. Western Union takes deposits online, by phone with Quick Collect for the cheaper service, in person or in its app, into the spendable sub account only, with the facility Washington Dept Corrections, city code WA DOC, state WA, and an account number made of the DOC number followed by the last name exactly as the department booked it, Hanson rather than Hansen if that is what the database holds, at $5.95 up to $30, $6.95 to $75, $8.95 to $200 and $9.95 to $5,000.
A cashier's check or money order, the least expensive route, names one of five sub accounts, spendable, or postage, medical for copays, over the counter medicine and glasses, education for tuition and fees, or commissary, each marked on the check; JPay's Send Money and fees also reach the trust account, from $3.25 up to $20 to $10.95 up to $300 online, by kiosk or mobile, $6.95 at cash locations up to $5,000, and no cost for a check or money order up to $300.
Funds received carry the mandatory deductions of RCW 72.09.480 unless designated for postage, education or qualified medical expenses, and no one may deposit to more than one individual's account without the superintendent's prior approval, since contraband funds go to the betterment fund.
Blake refunds and sentence information
After State v. Blake the department proactively refunds cost of supervision fees paid on causes the courts vacated: as of October 1, 2026 it had received orders for 41,119 individuals and reviewed 13,360 accounts, working through orders first received in November 2023. A refund for someone in a DOC facility goes to the trust account, subject to the deductions of DOC 200.000; for anyone else the unit confirms an address through the community corrections officer or by letter with an address verification form, returned by mail to the CCD LFO/COS Unit, PO Box 41126, Olympia, WA 98504-1126, by email to DOCBlakeCOS@doc.wa.gov or at any DOC office within 60 days, or the money goes to unclaimed property; questions go to (360) 485-1838.
Legal financial obligations paid on Blake convictions before February 2021 are refunded by the courts' Blake Refund Bureau through its own portal, not by the department.
Reading a Washington result
A listing in the Incarcerated Search places a person in a named facility and unit today, with the DOC number that every account, envelope and application needs; a name in the warrant search is someone the department has lost from community custody for more than 60 days, and a county jail inmate is in neither. The application takes up to 45 business days, the money order names its sub account, and Western Union wants the last name spelled the department's way.
Questions about finding an inmate in Washington
Related Washington records
The search is one of the Washington records this site covers: the Washington arrest records guide explains what a booking makes public, the court records guide covers the courts' case search, the sex offender registry guide covers the State Patrol registry, and the Washington county pages list each sheriff and jail.