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Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is a women's prison and prisoner intake center in Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. [2] [3] Operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections, the 1,684-bed facility opened in 2001 at a 108-acre (0.44 km 2) campus. The selection of the location for the prison was controversial and included legal challenges.
Oregon State Correctional Institution, Salem (888 inmate capacity) Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem (2,194 inmate capacity) Powder River Correctional Facility, Baker City (366 inmate capacity) Santiam Correctional Institution, Salem (440 inmate capacity) Shutter Creek Correctional Institution, North Bend (260 inmate capacity) (closed December ...
In September 1988, 28 female inmates at the Oregon Correctional Center staged a sit-down protest that prison Superintendent Robert H. Scheidler described as the first of its kind in the facility's history. On October 1, between four and eight women staged a hunger strike—inmate Jody Bedell fasted for 24 days before ending the strike.
The state’s only women’s prison, located in Pierre, houses twice the number of inmates it’s designed for, packed into classrooms and a gymnasium. ... As of January, there were 3,690 inmates ...
A man considered a person of interest in the deaths of four women whose bodies were found in northwestern Oregon is being held in a state prison after Gov. Tina Kotek reinstated a prison sentence ...
Several incarcerated women have also allegedly been raped in custody by male inmates who identified as females and were transferred into women’s prisons. “Real trans women [in prison] don’t ...
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The Oregon Department of Corrections is the agency of the U.S. state of Oregon charged with managing a system of 12 state prisons since its creation by the state legislature in 1987. In addition to having custody of offenders sentenced to prison for more than 12 months, the agency provides program evaluation, oversight and funding for the ...