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

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 ...

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 ...

Oregon Department of Corrections will pay $2.3 million to settle a wrongful death lawsuit over the suicide death of a 22-year ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A man whose diseased scalp resembled “an infected sponge of weeping” pus went without proper medical care for more than a year. Another developed tongue cancer after his early symptoms went ignored. A ...

The penalties for failing to update car registration in Washington could soon cost drivers more money. A new proposal goes after violators with expired tabs. I-5 owl crash leads to unlikely rescue in ...

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 ...

Oregon Department of Corrections has fired two leading health care managers who oversaw a division responsible for the medical care of about 12,000 inmates in a dozen state prisons. The corrections ...

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 ...