One of the great pleasures of our recent trip to McNeil Island was visiting with Philip Howse, a senior heavy equipment mechanic who has been in state service since 1998.

Terrie Matsen works at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center and has served the state for 25 years. She started out as an AC Cook at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center, transferred to the Olympic Corrections Center in Forks for a year, and now works in the mailroom at Stafford Creek.

Officer Patrick Collecchi of the Stafford Creek Corrections Center talks about why he plans to attend our DOC Lobby Day on February 13 and 14. Officer Collecchi is new to DOC and has been at SCCC since March.

On the morning of June 14, 2014, Tammy Kimball’s life changed forever. She arrived at work in the wee hours of the morning as she did every day. Tammy works as an AC Cook at the Washington State Penitentiary where she supervises inmates working in the kitchen.

Well over a dozen Teamster volunteers spent the afternoon on Saturday talking to voters in and around Walla Walla.

Teaching defensive tactics is physically demanding work. Trainers need to both master and demonstrate the techniques.

We caught up with WSP Teamsters Jared Frerichs who is running for Walla Walla County commissioner.

Thank you to the outstanding team of DOC nurses, at WSP, and across the state.

“I’ve been Union my whole life,” said Sgt. Frank Longoria of the Cedar Ridge Corrections Center near Olympia. “For me, it’s always been about people’s rights.”

One of the longstanding keepers of the gatehouse at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla is Officer John McDonald, a.k.a. Big Mac.