The Fort Walla Walla Museum has reopened its state penitentiary exhibit after several items were stolen from it last year.Not ...

Inmates at the Washington State Penitentiary have made a meaningful contribution to the Walla Walla JROTC battalion by donating handmade items for their annual benefit dinner ...

The gallows were being spruced up at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla – new trapdoors, new bindings and even a new rope.

WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Washington State University (WSU) landscape architecture students are working on a project to transform the exercise yard at the Washington State Penitentiary's minimum-security ...

An incarcerated individual is suspected of intentionally setting fire to a new license plate production machine at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, according to the Washington State ...

The U.S. and Israel attacked Iran with missile strikes on Saturday morning. by Associated Press WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) - A Washington state spokeswoman says a state penitentiary inmate attacked a ...

Four characters approached a shadowy cave, the entrance of which was flanked by stone blocks etched with strange geometric shapes. From the darkness, they heard the sounds of something living ...

Autopsies offer the best chance at flagging whether mistreatment contributed to an incarcerated person’s death. But state officials often skip them.

From 1975: About 200 inmates staged a protest at the state penitentiary on Walla Walla after a woman visitor was strip-searched. The prisoners “milled around the prison yard” for over two hours, but ...

SEATTLE, Wash. -- Green River serial killer Gary L. Ridgway is back in prison in Walla Walla after being flown to Washington from the federal prison in Colorado where he had been since May. Department ...

WALLA WALLA, Wash. (AP) - A second unit at the Washington State Penitentiary has been placed on lockdown following a fight in a common area. The Echo Unit is the second unit at the Walla Walla ...