On stifling days last summer, Reyes Miranda baked in his cell, the metal walls so hot to the touch that he worried he’d burn himself. At night, he slept on the cool concrete floor for relief. Miranda ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem is pictured in June 2022. The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday that it will not hear a ...

With an estimated 70% of male and 77% of female inmates in Oregon state prisons said to have substance use disorders, the ...

Cases of COVID-19 among inmates have pushed Oregon's prison system to a crisis point. A ruling by a federal judge last night ordered the state to offer vaccines to all inmates. It comes after 20 ...

Oregon Health Authority this week notified state prisons and other officials that it no longer intends to implement a novel Medicaid initiative that would have provided targeted health services to ...

A Marion County grand jury report this week highlighted “cascading failures” at Oregon’s largest youth prison, including contraband getting into the facility, unaddressed gang-related violence and ...

The director of the federal Bureau of Prisons was scolded Wednesday by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who say her lack of transparency is hampering their ability to help fix the agency, ...

Oregon is known for some of the strongest labor protections for workers in the nation, though the state does not require union membership from public employees The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned ...