McNEIL ISLAND, Wash -- It’s unique in the United ... Operated by the Department of Social and Human Services, it houses sexual offenders who have already served their prison time but have ...

The attorney general’s office and prosecutors will have expanded power to obtain public records deemed necessary to build a case to commit someone to the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island.

McNeil Island long has been the state’s most expensive prison, due to its age and reliance on boats for transportation. DOC spends roughly $1,200 more per inmate each year to house inmates at ...

The now-abandoned prison on McNeil operated for 136 years. Today, the island is home to the Special Commitment Center, which houses Washington state's "sexually violent predators." A collaboration ...

If those became full, he would prefer to contract with other states to house prisoners rather than crowd Washington prisons, Vail said. McNeil Island was a federal prison from 1875 until it closed ...

When a less restrictive alternative house for four SVPs on conditional release from McNeil Island opened in late 2018 in a residential area outside Poulsbo, just 150 feet from a school bus stop ...

If state officials want to build a halfway house for sex offenders on McNeil Island, they might have to swim to get there. Pierce County Executive John Ladenburg yesterday literally tore apart the ...

A former superintendent at Washington’s Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island – which houses the state’s most dangerous sex offenders – should not have profited from a contract that ...

Treatment at McNeil Island is intended ... and when people are conditionally released with supervision to group homes, there is more ongoing oversight as they transition into the community.

While on the campaign trail in recent months, Republican gubernatorial candidate Dave Reichert pitched using the island to house the homeless. Recently, McNeil Island was on a list of properties ...