The second-ranking executive in the department files a tort claim alleging that investigators and prison officials made false statements about his son's employment at the agency. A new administrator ...

The Oregon Department of Corrections has agreed to pay a former correctional officer $500,000 to settle her sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against the agency. The case was scheduled for ...

DOC wants to move its adult education program in-house to save money in the face of a massive budget shortfall. The Oregon Department of Corrections is considering cutting ties with community colleges ...

The Justice Department has tapped Colette Peters, who serves as the director of the Oregon Department of Corrections, to lead the federal Bureau of Prisons, according to a statement released by ...

The DOC has also approved exemptions for nearly 16% of its workforce, or 713 employees, which corrections officials said were largely for religions reasons. The relatively low vaccination rate among ...

PENDLETON — Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution and Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla County still have housing units in quarantine due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus throughout ...

A state prisoner serving as a jailhouse lawyer, who was placed in solitary confinement over a toy phone considered contraband and use of library emails, was acting as an “inside agent” for a civil ...

A man who tested positive for the coronavirus while incarcerated at the Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem has died, state officials said. The state Department of Corrections said in a ...

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 ...

This case in the Oregon Supreme Court centers on whether Article I, Section 41(3) of the Oregon Constitution, which provides that Oregon prisoners lack legally enforceable rights to prison jobs and ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ore. — A sergeant with the Oregon Department of Corrections is facing misconduct charges, and detectives are asking for anyone with more information in the case to step forward.