WAC 137-04-020   Structure of the department.  (1) The executive head of the department is the secretary who is appointed by the governor with the consent of the senate, and serves at the pleasure of the governor. The secretary manages the department and is responsible for the administration of adult correctional programs, including but not limited to the operation of all state correctional institutions or facilities used for the confinement of convicted felons.

     (2) The department is organized into three divisions and three subdepartments: The prisons division, the community corrections division, the administrative services division, the communications department, the health services department and the risk management department. Each division is headed by a deputy secretary who reports to the secretary. The responsibilities of each division are:

     (a) The prisons division is responsible for the operation of all adult correctional facilities, including the Washington State Penitentiary; the Washington Corrections Center; the Monroe Correctional Complex; the McNeil Island Corrections Center; the Airway Heights Corrections Center; the Clallam Bay Corrections Center; the Stafford Creek Corrections Center; the Washington Corrections Center for Women; the Cedar Creek Corrections Center; the Coyote Ridge Corrections Center; the Larch Corrections Center; the Olympic Corrections Center; the Ahtanum View assisted living facility; the Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women; the Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women; and such other state correctional institutions, camps or facilities as may hereafter be established. The division includes the correctional industries program.

     (b) The community corrections division is responsible for the supervision of adult felony offenders within the community, including offenders in the work release program and other community residential programs.

     (c) The administrative services division is responsible for providing a variety of services to the other divisions of the department including financial and management services; information technology; capital planning and development; rules, contracts, budget development and planning and research; and human resources.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 72.01.090. 07-12-073, § 137-04-020, filed 6/5/07, effective 7/6/07. Statutory Authority: RCW 42.17.250. 01-03-079, § 137-04-020, filed 1/16/01, effective 2/16/01; 82-04-023 (Order 82-3), § 137-04-020, filed 1/26/82.]