A 71-year-old man, who prosecutors called a “violent sexual offender,” has pleaded guilty to receiving and possessing images of child sexual abuse years after he was released from the Civil Commitment ...

Jake Unick's civil commitment trial delayed to April 14, 2026 due to scheduling. State seeks indefinite confinement of Unick under sexually violent predator law. Unick remains held at McNeil Island as ...

Washington has been releasing an increasing number of “sexually violent predators” from its treatment facility on McNeil Island, with little oversight. A Seattle Times investigation found that 1 in 4 ...

President Trump recently floated the idea of reopening San Francisco’s Alcatraz federal penitentiary. Could he reopen Washington’s abandoned island prison? In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump said ...

The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services is being sued for allegedly failing to act after an employee reported she’d been sexually harassed by the Special Commitment Center’s ...

There’s current governor Jay Inslee, of course, who has set his sights on 2020, and back in the 1970s, there was Sen. Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson. But there’s at least one more temporary resident of the ...

Inmates are returning to McNeil Island, but this time they’ll remain outside prison walls. The state prison on the island closed in 2011. The state will use buses and ferries to transport prisoners to ...

MCNEILL ISLAND -- The attempted suicide of a McNeil Island inmate in September highlighted a new high-tech threat for the state Department of Corrections: contraband cell phones. Over the weekend, the ...