Oregon Health Authority this week notified state prisons and other officials that it no longer intends to implement a novel Medicaid initiative that would have provided targeted health services to those about to exit jail or prison. The move comes several months after health officials quietly placed the program’s launch on hold, anticipating the passage […]
(The Center Square) – Democratic gubernatorial candidates during a forum Sunday favored continuing Medi-Cal benefits for illegal immigrants in California despite the $12.1 billion price tag for taxpayers.
Philipsburg, Pa. — An estimated 500 Pa. residents, with support from a coalition of progressive statewide organizations, gathered across Philipsburg on Sunday, Aug. 24, to protest and demand that Moshannon Valley Processing Center be shut down and the 2026 contract not renewed.
More than two years ago, faced with a growing addiction crisis in the state, Oregon health officials began work on an innovative program that would help people about to be released from jail or prison receive targeted health services through Medicaid. Federal rules make it hard for people to access benefits until their sentence is […]
Oregon’s juvenile justice system has a new leader following Gov. Tina Kotek’s firing of its former director over a backlog of investigations into sexual abuse at the state youth correctional facilities.
(The Center Square) – Two victims remain in serious condition Sunday and a Michigan man is facing terrorism charges related to the stabbings of 11 people at a Walmart in Traverse City on Saturday afternoon in an apparently random attack.
Voters in eastern Oregon, Salem and other largely rural areas with prisons have a greater say in the state House than other Oregonians because of how the state calculates where incarcerated Oregonians reside, according to a report released by advocates Wednesday.
Voters in eastern Oregon, Salem and other largely rural areas with prisons have a greater say in the state House than other Oregonians because of how the state calculates where incarcerated Oregonians reside, according to a report released by advocates Wednesday. The report from the Prison Gerrymandering Project of the Massachusetts-based nonprofit Prison Policy Initiative […]
