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State workplace safety officials plan to protect employees from indoor heat this summer. But due to cost concerns, a separate rule is in the works for state prisons that will take more time.
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The lawsuit is one of several class-action proceedings that have led the courts to assume oversight of the prison system’s treatment of those who are sick or suffer from mental illnesses.
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One in three California prisoners has a diagnosed mental illness. The state’s solution for some? Move them around.
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In what some advocates say is a groundbreaking ruling, a federal judge has certified a class-action lawsuit in Oregon over state leaders’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic inside its prisons.
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Gov. Kate Brown has commuted the sentences of 963 who were serving sentences during the COVID-19 pandemic. A preliminary report by the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission that looked at the first 266 people released early found they were not more likely to reoffend.
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The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a 25-count indictment on Monday, charging a former nurse at Oregon’s only women’s prison with sexually assaulting a dozen women while they were incarcerated.
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The ban was the first of its kind in the nation. But it was overturned in October on grounds that it could intrude on federal immigration authority.
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Gov. Kate Brown has granted more than 70 adults in custody who committed crimes as juveniles the opportunity to argue for their release before the state's parole board after 15 years in prison. Some are charged with crimes like murder, assault and manslaughter.
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Around 50% of the roughly 4,500 employees at the Oregon Department of Corrections are vaccinated against COVID-19, the agency reported Wednesday.
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The 2-1 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit said California's law doesn't circumvent federal authority when it comes to immigration issues.
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The politically powerful prison guards’ union and Gov. Gavin Newsom have resisted a COVID vaccine mandate, despite growing outbreaks.
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Gov. Kate Brown won't close Warner Creek Correctional Facility in Lake County. It was set to close in July 2022.
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Gov. Kate Brown is using her executive authority to close three Oregon prisons, a move her office said would save the state more than $44 million dollars.
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Two of the larger issues of our time, environmental degradation and mass incarceration, come together in one movement with The Prison Ecology Project. Its…