Washington State History | Prison and Jail

You are viewing a Washington State History unit about Prison and the Washington State Department of Corrections. In this Washington State History lesson students will learn the structure and function of the Washington State DOC, they will learn basic facts about prison, the cost of incarceration, impact on society, and how to access the Washington State Legal Code, which is called the Revised Code of Washington (RCW).

This unit includes:

• six (6) pages of informative text, paragraphs are numbered for shared reading and all text is in 16 point font for middle school readers

• three (3) "If Project" reflective and creative writing prompts

• one (1) Think Pair Share

• one (1) web-quest

• thirty-three (33) google slides

• four (4) embedded videos available in the google slides

• answers included

• Total sixteen (16) PDF pages