The Oregon Supreme Court early Wednesday ordered the state corrections department to immediately release two men and one woman who were rearrested and sent back to prison months after the state found ...

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 ...

Two Oregon Department of Corrections inmates with Marion County convictions were rereleased Dec. 24 after an Oregon Supreme ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections has tracked down 17 people it released from prison and put them back behind bars in a surprising roundup that follows confusion over a recent court ruling. The ...

Monday morning at about 10:20 a.m., there was a fire at the Oregon State Penitentiary in the Oregon Corrections Enterprises building, or OCE. The building was evacuated and no injuries were reported.

Oregon Health Authority this week notified state prisons and other officials that it no longer intends to implement a novel Medicaid initiative that would have provided targeted health services to ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections plans to comprehensively restructure its troubled health services unit to improve health care for inmates and working conditions for staff, agency officials ...

More than two years ago, faced with a growing addiction crisis in the state, Oregon health officials began work on an innovative program that would help people about to be released from jail or prison ...

The findings come after a session in which lawmakers failed to pass legislation that would have counted incarcerated individuals based on their original county of residence, rather than their prison’s ...

Oregon Health Authority this week notified state prisons and other officials that it no longer intends to implement a novel Medicaid initiative that would have provided targeted health services to ...

Prisoners are fighting forest fires as part of a decades-old state-run program. Matthew Tice, an inmate from Warner Creek Correctional Facility, takes a break as he and other inmates who are all ...

Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing the end of his third stint in an Oregon correctional facility on drug charges, he was thinking about what life on the outside would be like yet again.