A former Douglas County corrections deputy who allegedly admitted to embezzling more than $110,000 from his law enforcement ...

Mail sent to Oregon prisoners is about to get less colorful. That’s if Department of Corrections officials adopt a slate of ...

Oregon Department of Corrections leaders are pushing for a new state prison, asking state lawmakers to add it to the top of ...

(Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle) To combat the flow of drugs into prisons, the Oregon Department of Corrections is considering a change to its mail rules that would prohibit inmates from ...

Those include the case of Frank Gable, who was convicted in 1991 for the murder of Oregon Department of Corrections boss Michael Francke. Gable was exonerated by a federal court in 2019 after ...

Robert Plympton was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 40 years for the 1980 murder of Barbara Tucker.

The lawsuit — filed in April 2020 and led by six inmates at Oregon Department of Corrections facilities and the representative of a deceased prisoner’s estate — seeks damages for Eighth Amendment ...

Former deputy directors Brian Henson and Staci Yutzie were fired in late August after an investigation found they violated ...

The 57-year-old suspect kept a suitcase containing a woman's remains under a makeshift bed, according to charging papers.

Two deputy directors of the Oregon Department of Public ... and is scheduled to stand trial Dec. 6 The department certifies and licenses police, corrections and parole and probation officers ...

COCC was the first school in Oregon to receive approval for its Prison Education Program, or PEP, at Deer Ridge Correctional ...

the Oregon Department of Corrections is considering a change to its mail rules that would prohibit inmates from receiving letters written with colored pencils or markers while only permitting ...