Voters passed a jail inspection measure in 2022. The new policy allows a member of the public to accompany a city commissioner on the twice-annual visits. Oregon state law requires county commissioners to inspect local jails once per year to provide publi ...
23 Aug 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
Multnomah County had only released the cause of two jail deaths prior to the order amid surge of six deaths in three months Editor’s note: This story discusses self-harm. If you or people you know are at risk of self-harm, the National Suicide Prevention ...
18 Aug 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden and K. Rambo
Twice the number of prisoners in county jails have died in the last three months than in all of 2021 and 2022 A 36-year-old prisoner in Portland’s downtown Multnomah County Detention Center, or MCDC, died Aug. 1, according to the Multnomah County Sherif ...
3 Aug 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden