Washington nonprofits supporting vulnerable youth have faced large state funding cuts this year and are calling on ...

Officials say moving youth to the facility is necessary, due to overcrowding at the state’s only maximum-security youth ...

Kendrick Rochelle, left, Harbor Heights superintendent, talks with Tim Lang, secretary of the state Department of Corrections, on Thursday morning at Harbor Heights, inside Stafford Creek ...

A ward at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen. The state plans to open a 48-bed center, dubbed "Harbor Heights," on the grounds of Stafford by June 1.

The facility on the grounds of Stafford Creek Corrections Center near Aberdeen is intended as a first step in solving concerns about crowding at Green Hill School in Chehalis, one of Washington ...

The planned youth facility, dubbed Harbor Heights, is located near Grays Harbor in Aberdeen on the property of Stafford Creek Corrections Center — a near-2,000 capacity prison that opened in 2000.

Daniel plants showy fleabane, a prairie flower native to the Pacific Northwest, at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center.Photo: Sarah van Schagen Rows and rows of small yellow cylinders fill the ...

Stafford Creek employees lead a tour of Stafford Creek Corrections Center in Aberdeen on Wednesday, Dec. 18.