Filling Oregon's looming budget deficit could mean closing a prison, cutting programs that keep kids on Medicaid and money for the state's already stressed education system, 10% tuition increases at ...

The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release. Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing ...

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 ...

A Marion County grand jury report released this week detailed “cascading failures” at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility, Oregon’s largest youth prison, citing systemic issues ranging from security ...

With an estimated 70% of male and 77% of female inmates in Oregon state prisons said to have substance use disorders, the ...