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The Oregon Department of Corrections has moved to fire three corrections officers at the state’s largest prison who sent racist, antisemitic, homophobic and sexist texts, videos and images on a group ...
Snake River Correctional Institution, located in eastern Oregon near the Idaho border, has reported a total of nine deaths -- the highest death toll of any prison in the state. It is the largest ...
— An inmate died Sunday morning at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario. Officials say 77-year-old Richard Wayne Godwin died in the infirmary while on hospice care.
Snake River’s infection rate among its 2,700 inmates is 14%, second only to Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton, where 18% of inmates have been infected.
Four Snake River Correctional Institution inmates who tested positive for COVID-19 have died at an area hospital in the past four days, bringing to 13 the number of state prison inmates to die ...
MALHEUR COUNTY, Ore. — An adult in custody at the Snake River Correctional Institution died on August 12 after testing positive for COVID-19. The man was between the ages of 60 and 70. It is not ...
July 13, 2020 at 4:34 pm PDT. As of Monday afternoon, 120 inmates and 21 staff at Snake River Correctional Institution near Ontario, Ore., have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — An inmate at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario, died in the infirmary while on hospice care, the Oregon Department of Corrections said. 84-year-old Julian H ...
ONTARIO — The coronavirus continues to spread through the Snake River Correctional Institution, with the number of inmates infected almost doubling in the past 30 days.
COVID RAMPANT AT SNAKE RIVER PRISON: More than 1 in 8 inmates at Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario, Ore., have tested positive for the coronavirus, state data shows.
ONTARIO, Ore. — A man incarcerated at the Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario has died in custody, the prison says. Joseph P. Flower, 69, died in the prison infirmary Tuesday evening ...