With an estimated 70% of male and 77% of female inmates in Oregon state prisons said to have substance use disorders, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon Department of Corrections has reversed course on its reevaluation of nearly 11,000 sentences and has revised most to ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) - The Oregon Department of Corrections is reviewing prison sentences again, following new guidance from the state Supreme Court on how time served is calculated. DOC Director ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A number of individuals who had been released from Oregon corrections facilities due to a change in resentencing policies have been re-incarcerated. The Oregon Department of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) –The Department of Corrections disclosed Friday that a 71-year-old man died while in custody at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. David Dietrich was taken to the infirmary ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections plans to comprehensively restructure its troubled health services unit to improve health care for inmates and working conditions for staff, agency officials ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections has tracked down 17 people it released from prison and put them back behind bars in a surprising roundup that follows confusion over a recent court ruling. The ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Department of Corrections will pay $2.3 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a 22-year-old who died by suicide inside a black box solitary cell. The ...

The mom whose 22-year-old son died in Oregon Department of Corrections custody has settled with the agency for $2.3 million, according to the Oregon Justice Resource Center. The civil rights action ...

On stifling days last summer, Reyes Miranda baked in his cell, the metal walls so hot to the touch that he worried he’d burn himself. At night, he slept on the cool concrete floor for relief. Miranda ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — Prison officials are investigating after an inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem died, Tuesday. The inmate has been identified as 26-year-old Adam Alexander Green. Little ...