Maximum Security: Behind Bars at the Shelton Intensive Management Unit

The Washington Corrections Center is a men's prison in Shelton, Washington. Inside the walls of WCC is what the Department of Corrections terms a "prison within a prison" — the Shelton Intensive Management Unit, or IMU. The Shelton IMU consists of 124 solitary cells and six small exercise yards. There are three IMUs in Washington and they house inmates deemed unfit for “general population.”

Unless you work there or live there, you are not supposed to see inside Washington prisons. In 2012 the state's Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that prison videos are exempt from disclosure for security reasons. They are routinely requested, and are denied precisely as often.

But today Real World Police takes you on an exclusive look behind the scenes, behind bars at the Shelton IMU.

Hopefully this is your only look inside.

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