Oregon’s youth and adult correctional facilities aren’t doing enough to support people in custody who have limited English proficiency, a new audit found.  A 33-page audit released on Wednesday by the Secretary of State’s Office recommended that the Oregon Youth Authority and the Oregon Department of Corrections, the separate state agencies responsible for youth and […]

Oregon’s prison system faces a nearly $900 million backlog in maintenance operations, lacks adequate personnel and uses old technological systems that could harm efforts at public safety, according to a new state audit. The 40-page Wednesday review of the Oregon Department of Corrections from the Oregon Secretary of State found that “crumbling facilities, staffing shortages, […]