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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Death penalty opponents expect the Thursday ruling will overturn many of the state’s death sentences. -
A damning Department of Homeland Security internal report outlines how senior leadership pushed unfounded conspiracies about antifascists, encouraged staff to violate constitutional rights, and made spurious connections between protesters who engaged in criminal activity during last summer's racial justice protests. -
Oregon's senior U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat, said he spoke to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the agency's use of force during last summer's protests in Portland. Wyden said Mayorkas told him that "what went on in Portland is unacceptable.” -
A sweeping lawsuit filed by the family for a slain leader of the 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has been dismissed, essentially bringing to a close the last major legal chapter around the historic event. -
As the legislative session nears its end, Sen. Floyd Prozanski, D-Eugene, is pitching smaller changes to Measure 11, the controversial law specifying mandatory minimum prison sentences. Hopes for broad changes to the law are dwindling. -
Gov. Kate Brown won't close Warner Creek Correctional Facility in Lake County. It was set to close in July 2022. -
Richard Lee Harris was arrested on March 18. He's being held in Florida's Broward County Jail and facing charges in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Video from a Dec. 21 rally in Salem also appears to show him pushing a journalist outside the Oregon Capitol. -
So far, at least 41 Oregon prisoners have died during the pandemic after testing positive for the virus. -
The largest active COVID-19 outbreaks in Oregon are in its prisons, according to data from the Oregon Health Authority. -
Lawmakers heed the advice from Oregon State Police and FBI in delaying gathering for the 2021 session. -
Many people who tried to storm the Oregon Capitol building on Dec. 21 did not face criminal charges. Two weeks later, some of them would support similar actions in Washington, D.C. -
The COVID-19 outbreak in an admission unit at the Oregon State Hospital authorities disclosed this week has expanded to more patients and now includes hospital staff, according to court documents filed Friday.
