Located in Yakima, Washington, the facility was classified as a minimum security prison with capacity for 120 inmates who required medical assistance or long-term treatment, including age or intense healthcare.

It opened in July 1997 at the former Yakima County tuberculosis sanitarium and also housed a work release facility with 60 beds.

[1][2] The unisex facility was established to reduce capacity issues at infirmaries at higher-security prisons in a cost-effective manner for lower-risk inmates.

[2] The two-story building was purchased by the state government in 1993 and renovated at a cost of $6.5 million.

Most inmates were transferred to other prison infimaries or to a newly-expanded medical housing unit at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center in Connell, Washington.