Willamette Week

You’ll Spend Less Time in Jail in Portland Than the National Average

Significantly shorter jail stays and a smaller inmate population set even one of the worst places in the city apart from the rest of the country.

Multnomah County Jail Inmates Attacks on Corrections Deputies are on the Rise

The new year has seen a spate of violent incidents.

Multnomah County Jail Inmate Grabbed A Hostage And Broke A Deputy’s Ribs In Alleged Escape Attempt

John Christopher Marsh allegedly threatened to snap another inmate’s neck at the downtown Portland jail.

Multnomah County Started the New Year With 55 People Released From an Overcrowded Jail

“If we don’t have court running it’s hard for us to keep our jail population in balance,” says MCSO spokesman Sgt. Brandon White.

In “Jail Blazers,” Portland Sports Columnist Kerry Eggers Revisits the Most Controversial Team in Trail Blazers History in Painstaking Detail. But It Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story.

While thorough in its retelling of what happened, there’s disappointingly little exploration of why the team mattered, and how they ended up as Portland folk heroes.

Owner of Wapato Holding Out Hope for Using Facility to Serve Vulnerable People

The never used jail has long been a focus of efforts to find a solution to homelessness in Portland.

Portland Mayor Ends Hope of Wapato Jail Being Used as a Shelter or Treatment Center

The plan for Wapato is dead (again).

An Oregon Civil Rights Watchdog Says a Jail for the Homeless Is a Disastrous Plan

Bob Joondeph of Disability Rights Oregon says opening Wapato for the homeless would be a disaster.

Jordan Schnitzer Says Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Could Save Wapato Jail From the Wrecking Ball

The new owner of Wapato plans to tear it down—even though he thinks the empty jail should be a homeless shelter.

Jordan Schnitzer Says He’ll Demolish Empty Wapato Jail If He Can’t Find Funding to Make It a Homeless Shelter

Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith has renewed her push to open the never-used Wapato Jail as a shelter.

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