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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced practice providers represented by the Oregon Nurses Association rejected the tentative agreement reached with Legacy Health reached Dec. 23. Salem woman charged with manslaughter after DUI ...

More than two dozen inmates at an Oregon jail have coronavirus, county officials said Tuesday. Twenty-five inmates from Inverness Jail in Multnomah County have contracted COVID-19 since May 23, when a ...

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.

Gov. Kate Brown has authorized the Oregon Health Authority to provide the state prison system with 10,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine for its inmate population beginning next week, a top agency ...

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 ...

A federal judge in Portland ruled Tuesday that a group of Oregon prison inmates could continue suing state officials over their response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The class-action lawsuit states the ...

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 ...