Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Spokane County against taking Pine Lodge

  March 12, 2010 in City on Page A7 Spokane County officials say they don’t want to acquire the Pine Lodge Corrections Center at Medical Lake, and it should remain a state prison for women. State officials are considering … 3

• Costly study didn’t list Pine Lodge for closure

  February 7, 2010 in City on Page B1 OLYMPIA – Last year, the Legislature spent $500,000 for a consultant to tell Washington state which prisons should close and which should stay open. The consultant released his study in … 1

• Spokane County, city eye joint use of Pine Lodge facilities for jail

  January 29, 2010 in City on Page A5 Washington state will delay plans to close the Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women to see whether it can be shared with Spokane County and the city of Spokane. State … 3

• State rethinks plan to close Pine Lodge

  January 28, 2010 in News Washington state will delay plans to close the Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women to see whether it can be shared with Spokane County and the city of Spokane. 2

• Pine Lodge joins jail site list

  January 27, 2010 in City on Page A1 Spokane County’s list of 10 possible sites for a new jail has an unofficial No. 11: the state’s Pine Lodge Corrections Center in Medical Lake. The women’s prison is among …

• Tourism tax increase OK’d

  August 27, 2009 in Washington Voices on Page V1 A night at a motel in Spokane Valley will cost 50 cents more under a tourism tax increase approved Tuesday by the City Council. The Spokane Valley council joined Spokane …

• State targets women’s prison in Medical Lake for closure

  December 24, 2008 in City on Page A1 OLYMPIA – Citing the state’s budget crisis, prison officials want to close the Pine Lodge Corrections Center for Women, Washington’s only women’s prison east of the Cascades. As early as …