Conrad Wilson
Oregon Public BroadcastingConrad Wilson is a reporter and producer covering criminal justice and legal affairs for OPB. Prior to coming to OPB, he was a reporter at Minnesota Public Radio. Before that he ran the news department at an NPR affiliate in Colorado. His work has aired on Marketplace and NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He has also written for Mashable, The Oregonian, Business Week, City Pages and The Christian Science Monitor. Conrad earned a degree in international political economics and journalism from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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Containing the spread of a virus that has already proven it can tear through communal settings — killing and sickening many in its path — remains a Herculean task for Oregon’s prison system.
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A group of inmates with underlying medical conditions concerned about contracting COVID-19 filed a lawsuit Monday against the leaders of the Oregon Department of Corrections. -
Oregon is one of many states that thought they had a federal response to fall back on, thought they had more time. By the time Oregon sought additional protective equipment for health care workers, the new coronavirus was at the doorstep.
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Oregon is burning through its caches of surgical masks, gowns, face shields and gloves so fast that some hospitals and clinics have just a few days' worth of them left.
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A federal judge in Washington ruled Thursday he won’t allow detainees out of immigration custody over concerns about the coronavirus. -
In correctional facilities, where inmates and staff often work or live in close quarters, social distancing restrictions could be near impossible to enforce. -
The Oregon State Police, the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office and the city of Hillsboro said they won't comply with a new strategy from federal immigration officials. -
This year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has turned to a new tactic – subpoenas – to get information from sheriffs and police in so-called sanctuary cities and states. -
Under the new rules, clinics that receive federal money will be barred from referring patients to an abortion provider. -
After a four-week-long trial and a day and a half of deliberation, a jury in Portland has found Jeremy Christian guilty of all counts, including two counts of first-degree murder and a count of first-degree attempted murder.
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A jury in Portland, Ore., has convicted a man of murder, attempted murder and hate crimes stemming from a 2017 stabbing attack on a light rail train.
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Jurors in Oregon on Wednesday hear closing arguments in the trial of Jeremy Christian, who is accused of the 2017 racially motivated murders of two men.
