Washington Corrections Center for Women
Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW) is located three miles north of downtown Gig Harbor. It houses 738 minimum, medium and close custody incarcerated women. CI offers a pre-apprenticeship program referred to as TRAC. Class II operations at WCCW are as follows:
The computer aided design center processes approximately 63 drawings per month which equates to approximately 756 drawings per year. Incarcerated workers are trained in the latest versions of AutoCAD software and create drawings and electronic files for CI Account Executives and their customers. Workers meeting specific criteria can be certified by the Tacoma Community College as a Certified Technical Designer. This service employs one civilian staff overseeing five incarcerated individuals.
Incarcerated transcriptionists produce braille text using computers and create hand-crafted tactile graphics as needed. The Washington State Braille Services Team processes on the average 9,735 braille pages per month which equates to approximately 116,825 pages a year and approximately 2,102 tactile graphics pages per month, which equates to approximately 25,227 tactile pages per year. All transcriptionists are certified by Washington State and the National Library Service (NLS). This service employs one civilian staff overseeing 16 incarcerated individuals.