Oregon’s heatwave has hit prison inmates particularly hard. Inmates have lodged complaints about sweltering temperatures over the past several days, prompting prison lawyers to call on legislators to ...

Areas of freezing fog are being reported in Yamhill County. Skiers & snowboarders are urged to prioritize safety to avoid common injuries Parts of the Cascades have been blanketed with over a foot of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon’s two U.S. Senators are asking the new director of the federal Bureau of Prisons about recent allegations that guards at the federal prison in Sheridan have retaliated against ...

Oregon's Department of Corrections oversees the state penitentiary and more than 10 other prisons. (Oregon Department of Corrections) This story contains details of a sexual assault. A former Oregon ...

The largest active COVID-19 outbreaks in Oregon are in its prisons, according to data from the Oregon Health Authority. A group of medically vulnerable Oregon prison inmates has asked a federal judge ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit blocked on Thursday prison inmates’ lawsuit against Oregon Governor Kate Brown and others for putting the inmates on the lowest tier of priority for ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Excited only begins to describe how Nellie Love is feeling. Her fiance, an inmate at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, is eligible to be vaccinated for COVID-19 ...

Two Oregon inmates on a work crew Wednesday became intoxicated from the alcohol from hand sanitizer, then stole a four-wheeler before deputies caught them later in the day, The Bulletin reported.

SALEM, Ore. — A former Oregon Department of Corrections nurse was sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting nine female inmates while working at a correctional facility.

Ten prison inmates dug into Medical Lake soil Thursday, placed ponderosa pine seedlings and packed dirt around them to secure the plantings in place. About an hour later, 400 seedlings had been ...

An “extremely dangerous” felon accused of attempted murder escaped from an Oregon mental hospital Wednesday night after he commandeered a staffer’s car in full shackles and slippers. Christopher Lee ...