Prison

The head of Oregon's state prison agency said Friday the department would end the contracts to move its adult education programs "in-house."

The man was incarcerated at Snake River Correctional Facility in Eastern Oregon.

DOC currently contracts with six community colleges in Oregon to provide GED services to inmates across its 14 facilities.

The inmate is the fourth person in the Department of Corrections are to die this month from the coronavirus, and the fifth since the start of the pandemic.

The Oregon Department of Corrections on Friday reported a third incarcerated person has died of COVID-19 inside the state’s prison system.

The new rule, initially set to go into effect sometime this week, would have required attorneys to prove their incarcerated clients had a court deadline within 60 days to set up a free, confidential legal call.

The Oregon Department of Corrections cut the ribbon on a new behavioral health unit at the state penitentiary in Salem on Friday.

Lawyers say 20 immigrant detainees being held at a federal correctional facility in Oregon have passed credible fear interviews, which help determine whether an immigrant may be eligible for asylum.

As recently as Monday, the head of the Department of Homeland Security said the agency is not separating family that seek asylum at ports of entry.

For the 50th anniversary of Johnny Cash's “At Folsom Prison,” a Portland band is restaging the concert at prisons across the state. We go with them to Coffee Creek’s women’s facility.