Shutter Ck. Recognized, Aug. 10

Shutter Creek Correctional Institution (SCCI) was recognized by the Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) on July 30 for graduating from the Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP). The recognition represents over five years of dedicated work by members of SCCI’s Safety Committee – and staff throughout the institution – who partnered with OSHA consultants to find and correct hazards, develop and implement effective safety and health programs, continuously improve, and become self-sufficient in managing occupational safety and health. This year marks the fifth year SCCI has successfully been awarded SHARP certification, making them graduates of the extensive program. The facility joins two other Oregon Department of Corrections prisons in becoming a SHARP graduate: Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla and Warner Creek Correctional Facility in Lakeview. SCCI is a minimum-security prison in North Bend that houses approximately 286 male inmates who are within four years of release. SCCI serves as a transition and re-entry facility and is focused on cognitive programming, work programs, and preparing inmates for return to the community. Inmates work on the institution site in the physical plant, kitchen and dining hall, warehouse, receiving and discharge, laundry, and prison grounds. Inmates also work on outside crews, primarily with the Department of Forestry, providing services throughout the year as trained wildland firefighters. Originally an Air National Guard radar station, the facility was converted into a prison in 1990.