About a month ago, a controversial page on the regional jail’s website that listed criminal charges against immigration detainees who are held at the jail was taken down.
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After two straight years of daily protests against the housing of immigration detainees at the regional jail, the group that began the protest…
An email exchange in 2016 indicates the regional jail kept its local inmate population “low” to make room for immigration detainees, according to OPB.
The jail board reached consensus Monday (Oct. 2) to try running the jail without an administrator for the rest of the fiscal year on a trial basis. The board also accepted the Oct. 31 resignation of Administrator Bryan Brandenburg.
Replacement of the executive director at the Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facilities (NORCOR) was put on hold Aug. 28 to consider a board proposal to have a sheriff run the jail. The proposal, outlined at Tuesday’s board meeting by board member Brad Lohrey, sheriff of Sherman County, would break the facility in two, with the adult and juvenile facilities managed separately. Each would have its own budget and board.
The regional jail board, made up of representatives from the four counties that run the jail, declined last week to have the counties pay for unexpected expenses at the jail. Instead, the Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facility will have to dip into its contingency fund to pay for $101,500 in legal fees, and $86,725 for repairs to the nearby warehouse it owns, now rented by Insitu.
The regional jail board unanimously voted Friday to offer John DeVaney, a lieutenant at a large Nevada jail, the position of jail administrator. However, on Monday, he declined the offer. The jail board will have a special meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 28 at noon at the regional jail to discuss its options, said outgoing Jail Administrator Bryan Brandenburg.
Last year, local citizens began picketing at the Northern Oregon Correctional Facility (NORCOR) when immigration detainees held at our local jail had initiated a hunger strike over conditions there.
A finalist group of five candidates for the administrator position at the regional jail will be considered at an Aug. 2 executive session of the jail board. The executive session will produce a list of three finalists who will be interviewed.
Starting last Friday, July 13, the regional jail began listing the previous criminal history of immigration detainees held at the jail as a transparency move, the jail administrator said.
