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Suspicious Deaths at Oregon Prison Signal Alarming Rise in Inmate Drug Use

The Oregon Department of Corrections estimates half of all adult inmates struggle with addiction. Officials aren’t sure how to stop the flow of drugs, or fatal overdoses in state prisons.
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Elijah Roberts bought an engagement ring and proposed to his girlfriend, Brittany, in the months before his incarceration at Two Rivers Correctional Institution. He’d been sentenced to just over three years for nonviolent crimes related to his battle with addiction in 2022.  Roberts, 35, also recently came into some money, and the deed to his […]

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In Oregon’s Prisons, Terminally Ill People Are Left with Little Recourse

Proposed legislation would ease the extraordinarily difficult road that incarcerated Oregonians face in securing compassionate release.
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This article first appeared in Bolts Magazine and is republished with permission. One of the first things they saw when they walked into the prison was the wheelchairs.  One after another, something like 40 chairs and walkers were lined up neatly outside each cell, stretching away into the distance. It was a jarring sight even […]

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