Conrad Wilson
Oregon Public BroadcastingConrad Wilson is a reporter and producer covering criminal justice and legal affairs for OPB. Prior to coming to OPB, he was a reporter at Minnesota Public Radio. Before that he ran the news department at an NPR affiliate in Colorado. His work has aired on Marketplace and NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He has also written for Mashable, The Oregonian, Business Week, City Pages and The Christian Science Monitor. Conrad earned a degree in international political economics and journalism from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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New data from the Oregon Health Authority show 1,833 people died from overdose deaths in 2023, an increase of 450 people from the previous year. -
Mustafa Taher Kasubhai was confirmed 51 to 44, to lifetime appointment as a U.S. District Court Judge in Oregon. -
In the years since Donald Trump's first presidency, Oregon lawmakers have updated the sanctuary law and added more rights and protections for immigrants. -
Oregon鈥檚 attorney general oversees the state鈥檚 Department of Justice, which is responsible for defending state agencies and laws in court. -
At a news conference Wednesday, Portland police released their first description of a possible culprit, but declined to provide any details about a possible motive for the attacks. -
An Oregon prison guard sanctioned the attack of a man serving time at the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in 2022. After the attack, the Oregon Department of Corrections failed to meet the standards of medical care to treat 鈥渆xtreme and debilitating injuries.鈥� -
The race pits Republican Will Lathrop, an experienced prosecutor pushing a public safety message, against former Speaker of the House Dan Rayfield, a Democrat. -
In less than a month, Oregon will end its nearly four-year experiment with drug decriminalization. Beginning Sept. 1, possession of small amounts of drugs will again be a misdemeanor crime. -
The ruling won鈥檛 immediately allow Oregon cities to begin penalizing unhoused people for resting on public property, due to a state law that puts limits on sweeping public camping bans. -
The change comes as a result of a 2021 class-action lawsuit that resulted in refunding $77,041 to 870 people currently in prison. -
A criminal charge has been dismissed against a U.S. Forest Service employee arrested in 2022 by a rural Oregon sheriff after a prescribed burn on federal land unexpectedly spread to private property and burned roughly 20 acres. -
In a 2-1 decision, the appeals court called Oregon鈥檚 public defense system a 鈥淪ixth Amendment nightmare,鈥� referencing the part of the U.S. Constitution that requires the state to provide defense attorneys to those it charges with crimes if they cannot afford a lawyer.
