[2] Vocational classes offered at MCC include printing, information technology and personal computer support specialist, and inmates can earn a GED while incarcerated.

An independent non-profit, University Beyond Bars (UBB), offers college courses as a volunteer organization, and some people incarcerated at MCC have earned associate degrees despite the prohibition of state funding for post-secondary education.

Class III jobs provide essential services to the facility such as maintenance, janitorial, clerical warehouse workers, and kitchen work.

Class II jobs are designed to reduce the cost of goods and services to state agencies and other tax-supported entities.

Class I industries were once housed at MCC, but were eliminated in July 2004 as a result of a Washington Supreme Court decision that held that inmates cannot be employed by private commercial enterprises.

Inmates have access to classification and mental health counselors at MCC, in addition to a wide range of paid and volunteer staff.

Dixy Lee Ray, later renamed to Special Offender Unit (SOU), then to Sky River Treatment Center (SRTC), both under Gov.

[4] The SRTC is unique in that it also employs a 24/7 Psychology staff to assess and treat Incarcerated Individuals as part of its core program.

[8] Over 100 prisoners at the complex rioted on April 8 in response to the outbreak, but were broken up by corrections officers using crowd control tactics and an evacuation of housing units.

[9][10] The following day, Governor Inslee announced plans to release nonviolent offenders and at-risk inmates to lower the risk of infection.