The state of Oregon this week agreed to pay $49 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging the state failed to protect prisoners who were exposed to COVID-19 in 2020 through 2022. The ...

A proposed class action lawsuit claims Oregon is subjecting prisoners to unconstitutional and inhumane conditions in solitary confinement.

Joe Bugher is seeking $6.9 million and alleges corrections officials retaliated against him after he flagged problems with the prison health care system.

Oregon has reached a $49 million settlement after lawsuits alleged the Oregon Department of Corrections failed to minimize ...

The main front-page article in the Oct. 29 Oregonian starts out listing what the 12 members of the governor's Public Safety Commission have been wrestling with as they work on cutting prison costs: ...

Oregon has agreed to a $295,000 settlement in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by an incarcerated transgender woman who was subjected to abuse while housed in a state men’s prison. Zera Lola ...

Fernando Adolip Cruz-Lerma was allegedly involved in killing a man who owed money to a drug trafficking group. He was extradited from Canada in 2024.

PENDLETON, Ore. — Inside the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, the hum of sewing machines fills the air as adults in custody (AICs) craft workwear with purpose. For more than 30 years, the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation, self-harm, night terrors, panic attacks, and hallucinations are some of the symptoms inmates say they experience after being locked in ...

A middle-aged man is the first Oregon prisoner to die after testing positive for COVID-19. According to a brief news release from the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC), the unidentified man was ...