SPOKANE, Wash. — Washington Department of Corrections Arcadia 20 Liaison Roy Hardin spoke with NonStop Local’s Belle Lewis about his experience working with the Department of Natural Resources to develop the Arcadia 20 team. Questions and answers have been lightly edited for clarity.
Belle Lewis (BL): I want to start really quick by taking like a 1000 ft view, because I want people to understand that there’s kind of two types of incarcerated crews. There’s the crews that are working out of facilities that are more limited. And then this is a crew for individuals who are outside of incarceration as a first step into employment.
Roy Hardin (RH): So your camp crews (Airway Heights Correction Center, Olympic Correction Center and Cedar Creek Corrections center), those individuals are what we call total confinement. They have to report back to the facility at the end of the day. The Arcadia 20 hand crew, specifically, is what we consider in Department of Corrections as partial confinement. So some of them report back to Eleanor Chase Reentry Center in downtown Spokane. Some of the crew members are with this other, pathway into reentry called graduated reentry. And then there are some other crew members that are just purely under community supervision. So like a parole officer, if you, if you will…