WA DOC - Airway Heights Corrections Center (AHCC)

WA DOC - Airway Heights Corrections Center (AHCC) basic information to help guide you through what you can do for your inmate while they are incarcerated. The facility's direct contact number: 509-244-6700

The inmates housed at Airway Heights Jail located at 11919 W Sprague Ave in Airway Heights, WA are placed according to their custody level (determined by a number of factors including the past criminal history and the length of their sentence). There are ample educational and vocational training programs for all inmates, especially ones that show a willingness to learn new things that will prepare them for a better life when they are released. The mission is to promote and prepare the offender to leave in better shape than when they arrived, giving them the best chance to never come back and thus lower the state's recidivism rate.

Airway Heights Corrections is a mixed custody facility with the capacity to house about 2,258 male inmates of minimum, medium, and close custody levels. Minimum custody inmates here can participate in supervised work crews that provide a labor force to various agencies in the surrounding community. This facility provides adult basic education classes, English second language courses, and encourages inmates to earn a GED while incarcerated. Inmates at Airway Heights have various treatment programs available to them, including substance abuse and chemical dependency treatment, and sex offender treatment. Inmates are provided victim awareness, stress, and anger management, and taught job search skills.

Prison crews are a way for inmates can give back to the community. The Community Partnership Program at Airway Heights and volunteers from the community are dedicated to providing events, projects, and programs to offenders and their families. These include Book Fairs & Family Craft events, Family Portrait day, Stamps for Cancer, Day with Dad, Father-Child Story Time Video, fundraisers, and Family (Children’s) Birthday Party program.

Airway Heights utilizes community resources and encourages supervised interaction between community members and offenders. Volunteers are instrumental in assisting in the development of programs aimed at developing positive changes in personal growth and successful reintegration to society. Volunteer-led programs include the following: African American Literature Program, Alcoholics Anonymous, Book Fairs & Family Craft events, P.I.C.K (relationship) program, Locks for Love, Special Holiday events, Narcotics Anonymous, Relationship Works program, Stamp Out Cancer, Toastmasters International, Eastern Washington University Writer’s in the Community, Yoga, Children’s Reading programs – partnered with Volunteers of America, and multiple faith-based programs.