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Antonio Sierra// OPBAn 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� -
Jae C. Hong/AP PhotoInvoluntary servitude is prohibited in California鈥檚 Constitution except as punishment for a crime. Prop 6 would remove that exception.
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California over decades sterilized thousands of people in state prisons, state-run homes and hospitals. Lawmakers created a reparations program for them, but it has denied most applications. -
Oregon judges have released four people from prison, finding Gov. Tina Kotek鈥檚 orders that revoked their early release unlawfully violated their rights. -
The inmate, 35-year-old Jesse Banks, suffered from a mental health condition and died while in solitary confinement after hours without anyone checking on him, the lawsuit alleges. -
During the COVID pandemic, hundreds of prisoners in Oregon were released early. That led to backlash and Governor Tina Kotek later revoking some of those commutations. One woman in Southern Oregon is still struggling after being sent back. -
The change comes as a result of a 2021 class-action lawsuit that resulted in refunding $77,041 to 870 people currently in prison. -
Gov. Gavin Newsom is recommending small cuts to the state prison system, avoiding the closures of additional facilities. -
The state鈥檚 high court ruled Gov. Tina Kotek didn鈥檛 have the power to revoke a commutation after a person completed their sentence. The justices wrote that Terri Lee Brown鈥檚 鈥渋mprisonment is unlawful.鈥� Kotek revoked Brown鈥檚 commutation last year. -
State workplace safety officials plan to protect employees from indoor heat this summer. But due to cost concerns, a separate rule is in the works for state prisons that will take more time. -
The lawsuit is one of several class-action proceedings that have led the courts to assume oversight of the prison system鈥檚 treatment of those who are sick or suffer from mental illnesses. -
Spokespeople for Gov. Tina Kotek and the corrections agency declined to answer questions about the allegations of abuse and poor conditions at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. -
California correctional officers train like 鈥榯hey are going to war鈥� to work in state prisons. Gov. Gavin Newsom鈥檚 plan to transform San Quentin could require a kinder approach. -
The incarcerated woman alleges she faced retaliation in the prison after a corrections officer was charged with sexually abusing her.
