A series of headlines has brought bad news about the management of Oregon’s Department of Corrections and Oregon Youth Authority to public attention. Numerous leadership changes have also resulted at ...

Ten men who were held as boys at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility filed a $51 million lawsuit Thursday against the state, alleging they were sexually abused by the prison’s longtime chief medical ...

(KOIN) – The Oregon Department of Corrections is investigating ... Reports of possible contraband in a special housing unit at the state prison led a staff member to find an “unknown substance ...

Gable was convicted in 1991 of murdering Oregon prison director Michael Francke. Many, including the murder victim's brothers, adamantly maintained Gable's innocence and believed a conspiracy was ...

Oregon’s Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot ... Over seven years ago, Jill Schermett was facing a long prison sentence that would take her away from her children. She’d given up on the ...

Dr. Edward Gary Edwards routinely molested the boys with ungloved hands in a practice so ubiquitous and well-known among boys and staff at Oregon’s youth prison that he earned the name “Dr.

The state of Oregon has offered to pay nearly $2 million to settle a wrongful murder conviction lawsuit in the case of Frank Gable, who spent nearly three decades in prison before he was exonerated.