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 ...

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 State Penitentiary in Salem. (Photo by Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle) The Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

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 ...

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) –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 ...

This case in the Oregon Supreme Court centers on whether Article I, Section 41(3) of the Oregon Constitution, which provides that Oregon prisoners lack legally enforceable rights to prison jobs and ...

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 ...

An Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) adult in custody, Edward Lawrence Nelson, died the morning of August 25, 2025, the agency said Monday. Nelson was incarcerated at Snake River Correctional ...

An Oregon Department of Corrections forestry work crew helped rescue a hiker who broke an ankle along a trail in the Tillamook State Forest earlier this month. According to the Oregon DOC, work crew ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A 72-year-old Oregon State Penitentiary inmate who was convicted and received a lengthy sentence in a 2003 robbery, kidnapping and assault in Bend died Wednesday morning at the ...