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Coffee Creek Correctional Facility Opens to Minimum Custody Inmates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, October 15, 2001
CONTACT: Perrin Damon, 503-945-0925
perrin.p.damon@state.or.us
Today marked the official, but "soft," opening of Coffee Creek Correctional Facility near Wilsonville with the transfer of 53 female inmates to the new prison’s minimum custody complex.
The prison’s grand opening and open house will be held when the medium-custody complex is ready for occupancy in the spring. At that time, the Department of Corrections will mark the prison’s official opening and the public will be invited to tour the $171 million project.
All but 15 of the state’s 351 minimum custody female inmates will be transferred to Coffee Creek over the next few weeks, according to Joan Palmateer, superintendent of the new facility. The capacity of the women’s minimum complex is 432, 324 of which are general population dormitory beds. Only 216 general population minimum beds will open this fall to meet current needs. An additional 108 beds comprise a separate unit for inmates participating in residential drug and alcohol treatment programs, all of which will be occupied this month.
When the 1,252-bed prison is completed it will house virtually all of the women in the state prison system as well as men who are being admitted to prison. Both men and women will undergo evaluation and assessment for 21-30 days prior to receiving their individual inmate incarceration and transition plans. These plans specify how each state inmate will spend their time behind bars, including housing, program and work assignments.
The 928 beds in the medium complex are broken down as follows: 432 male intake beds, 324 to open in the spring; 432 female general population beds, 216 to open in the spring; 64 special housing female beds, all of which will open in the spring. The 64 special housing beds include disciplinary segregation, intensive management administrative segregation, medical and psychiatric beds.
Coffee Creek is the 14th state prison under the direction of the Oregon Department of Corrections.
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