Filling Oregon's looming budget deficit could mean closing a prison, cutting programs that keep kids on Medicaid and money for the state's already stressed education system, 10% tuition increases at ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A number of individuals who had been released from Oregon corrections facilities due to a change in resentencing policies have been re-incarcerated. The Oregon Department of ...

The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release. Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing ...

ONTARIO — The men in the blues filed in and filled the bleachers, rows of denim stamped with the shield of the Oregon Department of Corrections and a single word in orange: “Inmate.” A few sat at a ...

Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing the end of his third stint in an Oregon correctional facility on drug charges, he was thinking about what life on the outside would be like yet again.