SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Immigrants in a jail serving four counties in Oregon recently held a hunger strike over "horrible" conditions, say activists who allege officials are breaking state law by holding ...

One of the country’s largest correctional health care companies that also operates in Oregon and Washington jails filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday in the Southern District of Texas, according to ...

"Sometimes I stick this thumb in the hole where my soul used to be!"—Sen. Mitch McConnell Credit: Win McNamee / Getty images • The Senate, apparently good for something after all, has passed a $2 ...

U.S. Marshals are quietly using the Multnomah County jail to hold people in custody until they can be transferred for deportation proceedings, immigration rights groups claim. The allegation — which ...

A federal appeals court upheld a ruling that defendants in Oregon who have been in jail for more than seven days without a defense attorney must be released from custody. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

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 ...

SALEM, Ore. (KOIN) — For years, Oregon has struggled with a public defender shortage, which experts say is the root cause of issues like delayed trials and overcrowded jails. Multnomah County’s jails ...

The number of people sentenced to prison each month in Oregon has climbed since the pandemic but isn’t expected to return to pre-pandemic levels until 2029, according to a state forecast. For about ...

At least eleven people arrested at left-wing protests in Portland, Oregon, throughout 2025 faced prior charges for various crimes in the state — though none of them are currently in jail. Familiar ...

A man in Oregon Department of Corrections custody died at a hospital on May 26, according to ODC officials. State corrections ...