Yet Washington continues to send a small number of people to McNeil Island each year while rapidly releasing many more, according to a Seattle Times data analysis.

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Washington has been releasing an increasing number of "sexually violent predators" from its treatment facility on McNeil Island, with little oversight. A Seattle Times investigation found that 1 ...

Washington’s McNeil Island prison preceded California’s Alcatraz Island — and long outlasted it. McNeil even held some of the same notorious prisoners, including Charles Manson and Robert ...

The sexually violent predators of Washington state are getting older. And serving the medical needs needs of that aging population, civilly committed to the Special Commitment Center on McNeil ...

The prison on McNeil Island in Puget Sound is closing down, ending a 135-year history that began when Washington was still a territory.

The prison on McNeil Island has been open longer than Washington's been a state, but its days are numbered.

A former employee of Washington state’s Special Commitment Center for dangerous sex offenders on McNeil Island is suing the government agency that runs it, alleging that it failed to protect her ...

What about WA’s federal island prison? May 7, 2025 Updated Fri., May 9, 2025 at 9:29 p.m. A view from inside the original programming building at McNeil Island is pictured in this undated photo.

In the center of McNeil Island sits the Special Commitment Center, where the state detains people indefinitely who have a history of sexual violence and are deemed likely to reoffend. Greg Gilbert ...