Corrections employees named in civil rights lawsuit claiming abuse, including use of solitary confinement as retaliation Oregon Department of Corrections staff fabricated evidence and unlawfully used solitary confinement in order to punish two inmates wit ...
20 Apr 2018 - Emily Green
The Oregon county is piloting a program to give participants in jail and on probation drugs to stay clean and avoid painful withdrawal symptoms Justin Davenport, Jake Moses and Brandin Riehle are best friends, the closest friends each of them has had in t ...
5 Jan 2018 - Amanda Waldroupe
Disability Rights Oregon’s Sarah Radcliffe talks about her new report about juvenile incarceration at NORCOR Kids disciplined for leaving an orange pip on the floor, falling asleep, using a tissue as a bookmark or “being needy.” Kids locked up for more th ...
15 Dec 2017 - Thacher Schmid
Rising rents are pricing out service industry workers, but jobseekers coming out of prison are ready to work When Cala began serving its now-acclaimed Mexican cuisine in San Francisco two years ago, most diners didn’t know that more than half the restaura ...
24 Nov 2017 - Emily Green
A project gives former inmates an opportunity to share their re-entry experiences and the injustices they witnessed in the prison system Tyrone Rucker was 14 the first time he went to juvenile hall, before he “graduated” to prison, as he puts it. It was t ...
20 Oct 2017 - Sarah Hansell
She ‘surpasses in importance even the harshest of mistreatments and living conditions in prison,’ Enrique says Enrique is an inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary who enjoys writing, drawing, reading and learning about history, religion and places. He says ...
13 Oct 2017 - Enrique Bautista
The first state law of its kind, the new policy is intended to minimize the trauma children experience when a parent is incarcerated Gov. Kate Brown signed a “bill of rights” for the children of parents serving prison sentences into law on Tuesday, Sept. ...
22 Sep 2017 - Amanda Waldroupe
'This is a lonely place,' Shane Staggs writes from his one-man cell at Oregon State Penitentiary Shane Staggs wrote about his experience in solitary confinement for Street Roots while he was sitting in the Disciplinary Segregation Unit at Oregon ...
30 Aug 2017 - Emily Green
Prisoners say staffers at Oregon State Penitentiary are abusing the system and overusing solitary confinement Solitary confinement in Oregon’s prison system is “overused, overly long and characterized by isolating conditions.” That’s the conclusion of the ...
25 Aug 2017 - Emily Green
Corrections officials are weighing recommended changes but face barriers Two years ago, Oregon Department of Corrections partnered with the Vera Institute of Justice to examine its use of solitary confinement, or segregated housing, throughout its 14 stat ...
25 Aug 2017 - Emily Green