Prison

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades. That's according to emails obtained by The Associated Press.

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General found widespread abuse of shackles in federal prisons. One prisoner was held in restraints so tight that he had to have a limb amputated.

If you go to prison in Oregon as a juvenile, your record is typically wiped clean when you leave. But if you have tattoos like gang symbols — or something else inappropriate — that record could still follow you. One program is trying to give kids a clean slate.

Oregon Senate Bill 1007 would have made it easier for wrongfully convicted people in the state to seek compensation for their years incarcerated, but failed to pass this year.

A federal judge has found Oregon’s state health agency in contempt of a 2002 court order that requires severely mentally ill detainees be swiftly admitted to the state psychiatric hospital.

The number of people in ICE detention has grown, and detention facilities are over capacity. So the government is intensifying its hunt for more space, and local police are playing a bigger role.

On this date 150 years ago, a Modoc warrior from Southern Oregon died at Alcatraz. He was one of the first Native Americans sentenced to the island prison.

Levi David Gray received a 20 month prison sentence followed by three years of post-prison supervision.

Oregon’s Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program started 10 years ago and has served hundreds of kids and parents. It’s set to sunset this year if lawmakers don’t pass House Bill 2555.

The 84-page internal investigation also highlighted inadequate treatment of women’s health by Chief of Medicine Dr. Warren Roberts.