Prison News | Oregon

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• Executions, Death Row, & the Death Penalty
• Gangs in Prison
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• Prison Conditions & Corruption
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• Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes
• Suicides in Prison
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Education & Rehabilitation

• Inmates move, install furniture
  
  Oregon State University; Corvallis, OR - news By Oregon Corrections Enterprises provides job experience for state inmates Workers from the Oregon Corrections Enterprises program are working to move and install furniture into Weatherford Hall ......[more]
  U-Wire, Wednesday, July 24, 2013
  
  

Executions, Death Row & the Death Penalty

• 37-year-old inmate dies in Salem at Oregon State Penitentiary
  
  A 37-year-old inmate died at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem Monday afternoon. The cause has not been released....[more]
  Statesman Journal, Wednesday, May 29, 2019
  
  

Gangs in Prison

• Woman to get life term for Northwest killing spree
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. -- A woman who claimed ties to white supremacist prison gangs has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy that involved four deaths in three states, guaranteeing herself a life sentence....[more]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, March 11, 2014
  
  
• Oregon prison inmate fatally assaulted
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ...[more]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, July 2, 2013
  
  

Health & Medical Treatment

Prison Classification, Placement, & Release

• Oregon’s prison population beginning to decrease -- Study suggests additional reductions would not increase crime rate
  
  In November 2008, there were 13,615 inmates in Oregon prisons. Five years later, the number of Oregon inmates reached its all-time high of 14,707. Since then, thanks in part to 2013 legislative reforms easing mandatory minimum sentences on certain drug and property crimes, the total has gradually ticked down to 14,632 as of July 1....[more]
  Bend Bulletin, Saturday, August 9, 2014
  
  
• Oregon Legislature approves budget for state police, attorneys and prisons
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Three big budgets have cleared a final legislative hurdle. The Senate on Friday approved budgets for state police, attorneys and prisons. The lion's share of the nearly $2 billion from the state's general fund in the three ......[more]
  Associated Press, Friday, June 21, 2013
  
  

Prison Conditions & Corruption

• Oregon prison inmate fatally assaulted
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ...[more]
  Associated Press, Tuesday, July 2, 2013
  
  

Prison Life & Culture

• Inside Oregon prisons: Most inmates at Two Rivers never see the horizon
  
  Two Rivers Correctional Institution sits about 100 yards from a bucolic bulge in the Columbia River called Lake Wallula. But prisoners inside seldom, if ever, see this grand green pool of water and the irrigated crops beyond....[more]
  Oregon Live, Thursday, July 24, 2014
  
  

Riots, Lockdowns & Escapes

• Only person arrested in Oregon District massacre to remain jailed
  
  For a second time, a federal court has denied a release bid for the only person to be jailed so far in the investigation of the August Oregon District mass shooting....[more]
  Dayton Daily News, Tuesday, October 1, 2019
  
  
• NE Ore. prison on lockdown after inmate fight
  
  UMATILLA, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon Corrections Department spokeswoman says a northeast Oregon prison is on lockdown after a fight involving two dozen inmates broke out Wednesday in a housing unit....[more]
  Associated Press, Thursday, April 17, 2014
  
  
• Suspect identified in Oregon inmate's death
  
  Joseph Akins, a 45-year-old convicted murderer, was found dead Saturday at the Salem prison. Cellmate Craig Bjork was immediately placed in a segregation unit at the prison, but he was not publicly named as the suspect until Wednesday....[more]
  Associated Press, Wednesday, August 21, 2013
  
  
• Man who escaped from jail in trash can gets time added to sentence
  
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - An inmate who spent more than a month on the run after escaping from a Roseburg jail in a trash bin will now spend almost a decade in state prison....[more]
  Associated Press, Saturday, April 27, 2013
  
  

Suicides in Prison

• Inmate who killed self in Ore. prison had history of suicide attempts
  
  ALBANY, Ore. (AP) - An 18-year-old woman who killed herself in an Oregon prison last week had a history of mental illness that included suicide attempts....[more]
  Associated Press, Saturday, July 13, 2013
  
  

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