This case in the Oregon Supreme Court centers on whether Article I, Section 41(3) of the Oregon Constitution, which provides that Oregon prisoners lack legally enforceable rights to prison jobs and ...

Oregon Department of Corrections leaders fired two top officials Monday, a move they said was part of reform efforts to address longstanding issues in the prison medical system. Prison officials fired ...

The Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. (Photo by Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle) The Oregon Department of Corrections has fired two leading health care managers who oversaw a division ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections says that 64-year-old Geoffery Don House died this morning at the Snake River ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections is reporting that an inmate at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility died on December 3.

UMATILLA, Ore — Oregon State Police are investigating after a man who had been serving a life sentence at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla died Friday. According to the Oregon ...

TILLAMOOK COUNTY, Ore. — An Oregon Department of Corrections forestry work crew helped rescue a hiker who broke an ankle along a trail in the Tillamook State Forest earlier this month. According to ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections prison guard who fatally shot his teenage daughter and himself late last year was under investigation for allegations of misconduct involving women prisoners, ...

UMATILLA, Ore (KTVZ) — Another inmate has died while in police custody, and serving a life-sentence. Billy Raymond Bostic, was in custody at the Oregon Department of Corrections, when he died on ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Burning nearly 65,000 acres as of Wednesday morning, the Cram Fire in Central Oregon is threatening a nearby correctional facility in Jefferson County, according to the sheriff ...

A man was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to purposefully starting the fire. Willamette Week: 'How Oregon's broken mental health system failed Vashon Locust' On ...