Oregon Department of Corrections leaders fired two top officials Monday, a move they said was part of reform efforts to address longstanding issues in the prison medical system. Prison officials fired ...

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 ...

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 State Penitentiary in Salem. (Photo by Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle) The Oregon Department of Corrections has fired two leading health care managers who oversaw a division ...

The ruling led to an unusual flurry of filings late on Christmas Eve when it appeared the state Department of Corrections ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- The Oregon Department of Corrections reported details Friday of a recent data breach that involved human error, not a cyberattack, and the mistaken mailing of an internal ...

An Oregon Department of Corrections employee mistakenly emailed out a spreadsheet detailing personal information on nearly 1,000 prison visitors, the agency announced Friday. The breach happened over ...

Officials say 47-year-old Stephen Wayne Newell died on December 24, 2025, at the Snake River Correction Institution in Ontario. He was in the infirmary on hospice care. “As with all in-custody deaths, ...

UMATILLA, Ore — Oregon State Police are investigating after a man who had been serving a life sentence at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla died Friday. According to the Oregon ...

An Oregon inmate died in the hospital on Thursday morning, state Department of Corrections officials said.Shawn Hamilton, 57, was being held at the Eastern Oreg ...

The Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. (Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle) The Oregon Department of Corrections placed its chief of medicine and the assistant director for health services on paid ...