Two Oregon legislative leaders on Monday urged the new FBI director to open an investigation into the 1989 stabbing death of ...

An Oregon inmate briefly escaped from a work crew in Salem on Friday, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections.

The Oregon Department of Justice has also hired Falcon to help with corrections-related litigation. The state agreed to pay Falcon up to $250,000 for those services, according to the contract ...

The former top investigator at the Oregon Youth Authority failed to review and finalize more than 3,000 investigations into ...

Security was informed Tuesday of suspected contraband and conducted a search of the Disciplinary Segregation Unit at the Oregon state prison in Madras.

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The Oregon Department of Corrections is investigating a “suspicious substance” found at the Deer Ridge Correctional Institution near Madras on Tuesday. Reports of ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — An Oregon Department of Corrections adult in custody, Gregory Leon Robinson, died on the morning of March 17, 2025. Robinson, who was 35 years old, was incarcerated at ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections has hired a recruiter to help bring in doctors and nurses to work in its prisons and is hosting town halls with prisoners to learn more about health care gaps ...

A "suspicious substance" discovered Tuesday at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras caused a staff member to be briefly hospitalized, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections.