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Oregon DOC Did Not Report 78 Prisoner Deaths in 2010-2011
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2012
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2012, page 28
Seventy-nine Oregon state prisoners died in 2010 and 2011, but the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) publicly disclosed just one of those deaths.
Filed under:
Prison/Jail Murders,
Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death),
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Mental Health,
Suicides.
Location:
Oregon.
The 79 deaths occurred in nine of the ODOC’s 14 prisons, with three facilities reporting double-digit fatalities: 31 deaths at the Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) in Salem, …
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