Dr. Michael Seale, chief medical officer for the Department of Corrections, talked about the broad challenges facing the ...

Charlotte Thrasher most recently served as superintendent of the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor.

New allegations of MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility staff sexually abusing teens in custody are detailed in another ...

The Oregon Department of Justice has also hired Falcon to help with corrections-related litigation. The state agreed to pay Falcon up to $250,000 for those services, according to the contract ...

An Oregon inmate briefly escaped from a work crew in Salem on Friday, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections.

Francke was stabbed to death outside his office in Salem. Then-Gov. Neil Goldschmidt had hired Francke, a former judge and ...

(Courtesy GoFundMe) October 28, 2022. The lengthy, convoluted saga of the unsolved 1989 murder of Oregon Corrections Director Michael Francke took another twist in early March 2025 when Oregon ...

Michael Francke was the Oregon Department of Corrections director who was fatally stabbed outside his Salem office in 1989.

A "suspicious substance" discovered Tuesday at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras caused a staff member to be briefly hospitalized, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) –The Department of Corrections disclosed Friday that a 71-year-old man died while in custody at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem. David Dietrich was taken to the ...