Spring Ridge Minimum Security Correctional Center is a minimum security prison located just outside of Port Charles in Greenfield, New York. It focuses primarily on restitution and rehabilitation.
"See we're all in it together here at Spring Ridge, cause we're all us alike...misunderstood, lonely, lost, locked up." Inmate Heather Webber to her newly incarcerated daughter, Esme Prince
History[]
On July 20, 2021, Jordan Ashford tells Alexis Davis she will not be going back to Pentonville Penitentiary and will instead go to Spring Ridge. It is close to Port Charles, just outside city limits, with a low prison population housing non-violent inmates.
Alexis is familiar with the facility as she has advocated for her clients to be sent there. Alexis says she will have lots of opportunity to volunteer there. Shawn Butler mentions that the inmates at Pentonville Penitentiary refer to Spring Ridge as a spa with guards. Sam McCall is happy for her mother's new sentence, mentioning that it will have vocational training, therapy, and anonymous meetings.
On July 23, Jordan takes Alexis to the facility and shows her around. Alexis sees that Ryan Chamberlain is also staying at Spring Ridge.
On July 8, it's revealed that Harmony Miller got a job as a health aide at the prison, and personally sees to the locked-in Ryan Chamberlain.
On October 1, Ava Jerome, saying "goodbye" to Ryan, ran into Esme Prince. Esme claimed to have interest in interning there, as she is auditing psychology courses at PCU.
On November 8, Diane Miller and Sam visit Alexis, to tell her she's been officially released.
On Christmas Day (shown on December 22), Victor Cassadine arranged a deal for his great-great-nephew, Spencer Cassadine, who is currently facing legal troubles over stalking his step-mother, Ava. If Spencer changed his plea to guilty, all he would have to do is spend 30 days in Spring Ridge, do 500 hours of community service and make restitution to Ava. The next day, Spencer signed the paperwork to change his plea to guilty.
On February 3, 2022, Spencer reported to Spring Ridge to begin serving out his 30 day sentence.
On March 4, Spencer briefly escaped from the prison to visit his mother's grave with help from Victor.
On March 23, Spencer was released from Spring Ridge.
On June 20, Kevin Collins fired Esme from Spring Ridge after finding out she was seeing Ryan after he blocked her from doing so.
On October 5, Esme sneaked back to Spring Ridge after her fall on the Wyndemere Parapet during her fight with Ava Jerome to check in with her father Ryan and she told him what happened to her, including being saved by a Canadian fisherman and recovered in a hostel.
On November 28, it was revealed Heather Webber is rehabbing from a prison transport van crash at Spring Ridge.
On December 9, it was revealed that years ago, Ryan and Heather had a relationship under their aliases "Richard" and "Hazel", which was resulted in them conceiving their daughter Esme, whom Heather gave up for adoption. Years, later Esme found Ryan through his keepsakes that Heather stole from him, before she left during her pregnancy. Ryan confronted Heather about her leaving him, her pregnancy, and giving Esme up for adoption.
On January 5, 2023, Ryan confronted Heather about being the Hook Killer after killing Britt Westbourne, Heather explains that the wanted to protect their baby girl. Ryan informed Heather about their daughter's pregnancy and Heather became excited as this is her first grandchild for her, because both Steven Lars and Franco didn't have children. Also, she wanted to be there for Esme as she gave birth. Ryan told her that it would not be impossible for her. Ryan and Heather were unaware that Esme suffered memory loss after falling into the ocean. They started to begin plans for themselves, Esme, the baby and possibly Ava, in Ryan's case.
On January 17, an amnesiac and pregnant Esme, having been found and taken into custody, was remanded to Spring Ridge, now living there unknowingly with both of her parents.
On January 18, Heather meets with Esme to speak to her about her current situation, which includes her memory loss, her pregnancy, and warning her to staying away from Ryan, which Esme later freak out and she left the common room, not before leaving behind her friendship bracelet.
On January 23, Heather saves her daughter Esme after she was threatened by another inmate named Ramona in the common room by putting a shank up to her side. Later, Dante Falconeri and Sam McCall came to visit Heather and Esme. Dante wants Heather to find information about the relationship between Ryan and Esme and Sam wants to find Esme's father by finding her old nanny Maggie Fitzgerald.
On January 31, Esme was visited by Nikolas Cassadine and Carolyn Webber, who diagnosed Esme of having dissociative amnesia due to a traumatic event. Aware of Nikolas' plans to have Carolyn erase Esme's memories like what did to Elizabeth, when she was a child, Carolyn changed her mind when she saw Esme was pregnant. She told Nikolas the deal is off and left Spring Ridge to warn her daughter. Nikolas was left with Esme alone and she told him that Spencer stopped by to visit her and told her that he is the father of the baby. But Nikolas admitted that he is the father of the baby, leaving Esme in shock.
On February 1, Nikolas tries to convinced Esme into sign a document, which he hands her, claiming it's just a formality. He promises to make sure her baby is waiting for her once she's free. She thinks she should have a lawyer read this over, and this is a lot to process at once. He leaves the paper with her to look over, and says he'll come back tomorrow. Alone, Esme doesn't know if she can trust Nikolas.
On February 2, when Heather grabs the papers Esme is looking over and reads them. She is stunned they are custody papers and asks where she got them. Esme explains from Nikolas, the baby's father. Heather is aghast and warns that the Cassadines are ruthless, and she must think carefully about signing her rights away. Esme believes Nikolas when he said this is only temporary until she gets out. After seeing Heather and Esme together, Heather confronts Ryan about knowing that Nikolas is the baby's father and he is trying to steal their grandchild from them. Heather tells Ryan about the visit from Dante and Sam about finding Esme's nanny, who knows Ryan, and it's time for them to break out of Spring Ridge and they'll bring Esme with them.
On March 8, even after Laura Collins tried to appeal to Esme as a mother, she and her newborn son, Ace Prince-Cassadine left GH for Spring Ridge. She didn't want anything from Spencer, but when Ace started fussing, she relented to Trina Robinson's gift for him - a baby blanket. As she left, she extended an invitation for Laura to visit them anytime. Once gone, Spencer stated Ace was only with Esme "for now," and vowed to Trina and Laura that he would do everything legally possible to get his baby brother back.
In March 2023, upon her release from Spring Ridge, arrangements were made for Esme and Ace - a rented room about Kelly's and Ace would stay with his paternal grandmother and maternal great-uncle at their penthouse. When Esme refused to be separated from her son, they both ended up moving into the penthouse.
Gallery[]
Jordan Ashford brings Alexis Davis to Spring Ridge (2021)
Esme Prince, Harmony Miller, and Ryan Chamberlain in the courtyard at Spring Ridge (2021)
Alexis and Nikolas Cassadine sort through Ryan's fan-mail, hoping to find Ava Jerome's stalker (2021)
Ryan and Heather Webber reunited for the holidays (2022)
The police interrogate Ryan about The Hook with Heather translating (2022)
Mother and daughter, Heather and Esme, both incarcerated (2023)