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As Washington Scraps Death Penalty, Gubernatorial Candidate Knute Buehler Pledges To Bring Executions Back To Oregon

“I will follow the desires of the voters of Oregon,” he said.

Oregon Department of Corrections Will No Longer Share Inmates’ Family Information With ICE Officials

“We will immediately cease this type of information exchange,” the agency says in a memo.

First Asylum Seekers Released Talk About “Tough Times” In Sheridan Prison

“Now we are out here and we’re happy,” one asylum seeker said through an interpreter.

Immigrant Detainees At Sheridan Prison Met With Lawyers After Nearly A Month Of Being Denied Legal Counsel

“The most common question we received was ‘How long will I be here?'”

ACLU of Oregon Sues to Force ICE to Let Immigrant Men Access Lawyers at Oregon Prison

A similar lawsuit in California led a judge to issue a restraining order against federal government officials.

Faith Leaders Say Sikh Refugees and Others in Oregon Prison Are Being Denied Access to Religious Services

The leaders said that the imprisonment of immigrants and separation of families is a violation of human rights, and they will gather on Sunday in Sheridan, Ore., in prayer to oppose it.

Border Patrol Agents May Have Separated Families at Legal Ports of Entry Despite Promises Not To

Some of the Mexican men held in a federal prison in Oregon presented themselves at the San Ysidro port between Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, Calif.

At Least Six Immigrants in Federal Prison Outside Portland Were Separated From Their Children at the Border

At least six of the immigrants detained in the federal prison are fathers who were separated from their children at the border.

ICE Plans to Move Parents Separated From Their Children At The Border to a Federal Prison in Oregon

The federal correctional institution in Sheridan, Ore., provided 130 beds to ICE.

The Dialogue: What Readers Had to Say About the Woman Who Died at an Oregon Prison After Not Receiving a Flu Vaccine

Last week, WW revealed that the Oregon’s women’s prison, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, failed to provide flu shots to most of its inmates. One prisoner, Tina Ferri, contracted the virus and died after not receiving a vaccination (“A Bug in the System, WW, March 21, 2018).

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