CLALLAM BAY — Inmates in the two North Olympic Peninsula prisons are likely to be younger and more violent than prisoners were 10 years ago.
The population at the two facilities — the Clallam Bay Corrections Center and Olympic Corrections Center in Forks — rose by nearly a third during the last decade, to more than 1200 inmates last year, recently released census figures show.
The numbers largely reflect a $26 million expansion in the early 1990s at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center.
The expansion increased inmate capacity from 400 inmates to about 900 inmates and transformed the minimum-security prison into a high-security prison.
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