Oregon Department of Corrections agrees to $2.3 million settlement with mom whose son died while in custody

The lawsuit alleges that despite multiple documented warning signs, Grayson Painter was placed in solitary confinement and ...

Oregon settles for $2.3M after suicide of 22-year-old at OSCI

Oregon Department of Corrections will pay $2.3 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit over the suicide death of a 22-year ...
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Multiple individuals re-incarcerated as Oregon DOC recalculates sentences

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A number of individuals who had been released from Oregon corrections facilities due to a change in resentencing policies have been re-incarcerated. The Oregon Department of ...
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Oregon DOC reviews sentences under new court guidance

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) - The Oregon Department of Corrections is reviewing prison sentences again, following new guidance from the state Supreme Court on how time served is calculated. DOC Director ...
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Communication That Builds Credibility: How Oregon Corrections Modernized Outreach

Oregon Corrections replaced fragmented outreach with a modern, data-driven engagement platform to deliver timely updates and ...
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Oregon corrections work crew helps rescue injured hiker on Tillamook Co. trail

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 ...
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DOC to determine cause of death for 77-year-old inmate from Coos County at Snake River

An Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) adult in custody, Edward Lawrence Nelson, died the morning of August 25, 2025, the agency said Monday. Nelson was incarcerated at Snake River Correctional ...
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Oregon Department of Corrections discloses death of man in custody

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) –The Department of Corrections disclosed Friday that a 71-year-old man died while in custody at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. David Dietrich was taken to the infirmary ...
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Oregon State Penitentiary inmate convicted in 2003 Bend robbery, kidnap and assault dies at 72

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A 72-year-old Oregon State Penitentiary inmate who was convicted and received a lengthy sentence in a 2003 robbery, kidnapping and assault in Bend died Wednesday morning at the ...
Oregonian

‘Turmoil at the top’: More than half of Oregon’s prison doctors on leave, fired or left in past year

A gynecologist at Oregon’s women’s prison was assigned to work in the mailroom after clashing with the chief corrections medical officer, Dr. Warren Roberts — an unprecedented sanction that an outside ...
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New superintendent for Oregon’s troubled women’s prison will begin in June

Oregon’s troubled women’s prison has a new superintendent, a 27-year career corrections official who most recently served as superintendent of Washington state’s biggest women’s prison. Charlotte ...
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Oregon inmate held in Pendleton, 57, dies in hospital, corrections officials say

Salem-Keizer public schools are grappling with a $25 million budget shortfall, attributed to declining enrollment. One injured in explosion at Canby commercial building, evacuations in place One of ...