Oregon Prosecutor’s Son Escapes Mandatory Prison Time for Sexual Assault by Commit sexual abuse in Oregon and you face a mandatory prison sentence of 75 months – unless your father happens to be a prosecutor, apparently. In December 2011, Jacob Frasier, 17, the son of Coos County District Attorney Paul …
Oregon-Washington Prison Employee Logs 19-Hour Days by To say that Ming Zhu is an industrious employee would be an understatement of epic proportions. Zhu works the graveyard shift at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI) in Pendleton, Oregon. Then, when his shift ends at 6:30 a.m., he drives an hour …
California and Oregon Prison Guards Fire Shots to Break up Fights by Between September and November 2012, California state prison guards at three high-security facilities used live rounds to quell fights on prison yards. One prisoner was killed by the gunfire; two others were injured. On September 19, over 60 …
Oregon DOC Did Not Report 78 Prisoner Deaths in 2010-2011 by Seventy-nine Oregon state prisoners died in 2010 and 2011, but the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) publicly disclosed just one of those deaths. The 79 deaths occurred in nine of the ODOC’s 14 prisons, with three facilities reporting double-digit …
Oregon Re-Sells Unused Execution Drugs by On November 22, 2011, death penalty opponents cheered Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber’s decision to halt the scheduled December 6, 2011 execution of Gary Haugen, and to impose a moratorium on all executions for the duration of his term. Kitzhaber called the death penalty “compromised …
Oregon DOC Gets Tiny Cut of $3.34 Million Pfizer Settlement by The Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) was duped by Pfizer, Inc.’s misleading statements and studies used to market an antibiotic, according to the Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ). As such, the ODOC received part of a $3.34 million settlement …
PLN v. Umatilla Co., et al., OR, Judgement, censorship, 2012 Case 2:12-cv-01101-SU Document 21 Filed 10/17/12 Page 1 of 2 Page ID#: 129 Katherine C. Chamberlain, OSB #042580 katherinec@mhb.com Jesse A. Wing, pro hac vice jessew@mhb.com Of Attorneys for Plaintiff Prison Legal News MacDonald Hoague & Bayless 705 Second Avenue, …
PLN v. Umatilla Co., et al., OR, Judgement, censorship, 2012 Case 2:12-cv-01101-SU Document 21 Filed 10/17/12 Page 1 of 2 Page ID#: 129 Katherine C. Chamberlain, OSB #042580 katherinec@mhb.com Jesse A. Wing, pro hac vice jessew@mhb.com Of Attorneys for Plaintiff Prison Legal News MacDonald Hoague & Bayless 705 Second Avenue, …
Oregon Guard Shoots, Wounds Prisoner; Unreported Earlier Prisoner Murder Exposed by An Oregon state prisoner was shot by a tower guard on the recreation yard at the Snake River Correctional Institution (SRCI) last year, after he ignored orders to stop fighting. That incident followed an unreported prisoner murder on the …
Oregon Passes Legislation to Move Juveniles Out of Adult Jails by “Youth who are held in adult jail[s] are at significantly increased risk of experiencing violence, committing suicide, and they’re actually at much higher risk of recidivating as well,” stated David Rogers, executive director of the Partnership for Safety and …
Oregon Adopts 5% Prison Trust Fund Account “Service Fee” by Tasked with cutting $28 million from its massive $1.36 billion budget, Oregon prison officials had to look under every couch cushion for loose change. That means they once again turned their focus to prisoners and their loved ones, who present …
Prisoner Medical Care Costs Oregon Taxpayers Over $100 Million Annually by As of July 1, 2011, the first day of Oregon’s most recent budget cycle, the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) had a population of just over 14,000 prisoners and a shiny new $1.36 billion budget for the 2011-2013 biennium. …
Economy Forces Oregon Jails to Eliminate Beds by Commissioners in Marion County, Oregon voted on October 19, 2011 to cut 128 jail beds, closing one pod and reducing the jail’s capacity to 400 prisoners. In reality, however, only 56 beds were cut because the county is reopening 72 work center …
Barrett v. Williams, OR, Memo Support MSJ, Mail Censorship, 2012 Case 6:11-cv-06358-HZ Document 49 Filed 08/27/12 Page 1 of 11 ELLEN F. ROSENBLUM Attorney General KRISTIN A. WINGES-YANEZ #06552 Assistant Attorney General Department of Justice 1515 SW Fifth Ave, Suite 410 Portland, OR 97201 Telephone: (971) 673-1880 Fax: (971) 673-5000 …
Ethics Complaint Against Former Oregon Prison Official Dismissed by As previously reported in PLN, Michael Taaffe, 56, retired from his $91,020-per-year position with the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) in March 2011. He had been employed as an assistant administrator with the ODOC’s Health Services Division, and served on a …
Ninth Circuit Holds BOP Individual RDAP Determinations Not Subject to Judicial Review by Individualized decisions related to the federal Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP) are not subject to judicial review under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has …
No Good Time for Time Spent in State Custody before Imposition of Federal Sentence by Good conduct time (GCT) may not be awarded to a federal prisoner for time spent in state custody before receiving his federal sentence, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has held. Russell …
Another Oregon Prison Food Manager Accused of Misconduct by As previously reported in PLN, former Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) Food Services Administrator Farhad “Fred” Monem accepted over $1.2 million in bribes from several food vendors and then fled to his homeland of Iran, leaving his wife and the vendors …
Oregon Cop Arrested For Sexual Corruption of Minor by Two months after being arrested for the sexual corruption and luring of a minor, a 22-year veteran Oregon police officer resigned on May 22, 2012. Scott E. Elliott, 50, worked as a Portland Police Bureau (PPB) Officer for 22 years, most …
