Tag Archives: Female Adults in Custody/Inmates/Prisoners

Short-Staffed Women’s Prison Fires Its Only Gynecologist

“Currently there is not an OB/GYN provider on site.” Coffee Creek Correctional Facility no longer has an on-site gynecologist after firing Dr. Linda Widing on April 29, WW has learned. “Patients needing OB care are taken to a provider outside of the facility,” spokeswoman Amber Campbell said in a statement. “Currently there is not an […]
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Oregon Women Lawyers Hold Book Drive for Coffee Creek Women’s Correctional Facility

The Oregon Women Lawyers (OWLs) will be conducting their annual book drive to support the library at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon’s only women’s prison, May 13-29. There will be book collection boxes situated near the court clerks’ offices in courthouses at The Dalles, Hood River, Condon, Wasco, and Fossil. Source: Oregon Women Lawyers Hold […]
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Coffee Creek inmate sues corrections agency amid criminal case 

An incarcerated woman at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility alleged in a federal lawsuit she faces an ongoing barrage of abuse and retaliation after a corrections officer repeatedly sexually assaulted her in Oregon’s only women’s prison. That corrections officer, Sgt. Levi Gray, 47, was charged in August with two counts of two felony counts of first-degree […]
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Native American ceremonies return to Oregon women’s prison after pandemic hiatus

A prison is perhaps one of the last places you’d expect to find beauty. But razor wire and metal detectors won’t stop swallows from snatching up worms in carefully tended gardens. Nor will they stop the women who inhabit the cells of Coffee Creek Correctional Facility from expressing their creativity and practicing their culture. Source: […]
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Advocacy group criticizes Oregon corrections agency’s plans to improve women’s prison

Oregon Justice Resource Center says state could do more to improve conditions at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. An advocacy group for incarcerated people says the Oregon Department of Corrections has inadequate plans to improve the treatment and conditions at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, the state’s only women’s prison. Source: Advocacy group criticizes Oregon corrections agency’s […]
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New report finds abortion access varies in Oregon jails – OPB’s Think Out Loud

The Oregon Justice Resource Center recently released a report focusing on access to abortion in Oregon county jails. It found that access to the procedure varies widely by county. We hear more about the report from Brittney Plesser, co-director of the Fair Law Project at the Oregon Justice Resource Center. Source: New report finds abortion […]
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After critical report, Oregon Department of Corrections plans changes at women’s prison

Oregon corrections agency plans to increase security cameras and provide sports bras and more social activities at troubled prison. Yoga classes, sports bras and more security cameras are coming to Oregon’s only women’s prison. The changes at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility follow a state-ordered report released in August that found an unsafe, harsh environment and […]
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Former Oregon prison nurse receives 30-year sentence for abusing women in custody

Federal prosecutors say the case against Tony Klein is the largest of its kind the U.S. Department of Justice has prosecuted, both in terms of the number of victims and charges. A former Oregon correctional nurse was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting numerous women at the state’s only prison for […]
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Prosecutors seek 41-year sentence, defense will urge 25-year term for convicted former Oregon prison nurse Tony Klein

Prosecutors will ask a judge Tuesday to sentence former Oregon prison nurse Tony D. Klein to 41 years in prison, while his defense lawyers will seek a 25-year term after a jury found Klein guilty of sexually abusing nine women at Coffee Creek Correctional Institution. Request full-text (for State Agency patrons only) Source: Prosecutors seek […]
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Advocacy group calls for closing  Coffee Creek, overhauling Oregon Department of Corrections

An advocacy group called on state leaders to close Oregon’s only women’s prison and completely overhaul the corrections system after a state-ordered report found harsh conditions and the abuse of incarcerated women at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. The Oregon Justice Resource Center concluded that the state’s response – including an advisory panel Gov. Tina Kotek […]
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