When inmates first arrive at juvenile detention centers run by the Oregon Youth Authority, they receive a questionnaire ...

Outdated technology and a maintenance backlog put inmates at risk and hamper efforts to reform Oregon's prison system, ...

A new audit of the Oregon Youth Authority and state corrections department found that both need to improve how they identify ...

A state audit warns deteriorating prisons, staffing shortages and outdated technology are putting inmates and staff at risk ...

Efforts to reform Oregon prisons are being undermined by crumbling facilities, staff shortages, and outdated systems, ...

An Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) adult in custody, James William Parrott, died the morning of August 20, 2025, the agency reports. Parrott was incarcerated at Two Rivers Correctional ...

Aging prison facilities, chronic staffing shortages and outdated technology are putting Oregon's correctional system at ...

The change comes as a result of a 2021 class-action lawsuit that resulted in refunding $77,041 to 870 people currently in prison. The Oregon Department of Corrections will no longer force prisoners to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A former corrections officer who murdered his brother before engaging police in a stand-off at Oregon State Penitentiary was sentenced on Friday. Alonzo Rowell, now 52, was ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Data maintained by the Oregon Department of Corrections has been compromised. A former Snake River Correctional Institution employee improperly gained access to the records ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Department of Corrections placed its chief of medicine and the assistant director for health services on paid administrative leave on Thursday, pending a human ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon corrections officials have disclosed that the personal information of 861 people was revealed in a data breach, but said “it does not appear individuals’ information is ...