Women in Prison

The fastest growing group of inmates in Oregon: Women.

January 20, 2012
In the past 10 years, the number of female inmates in Oregon's prison system increased by 28 percent. This trend will only accelerate -- Measure 57, which went into effect Jan. 1, lengthens sentences for repeat property and drug offenders. The more likely transgressors: women (Willamette Week).

Jail Birds

The fastest-growing group

Innovative Program Helps Native Women Transition Out of Prison

December 5, 2011
Red Lodge Transition Services supports Oregon's incarcerated Native women and helps them reenter society. Their innovative methods, including the establishment of a Native American Prison Art Project, have helped to prevent intergenerational incarceration (Indian Country Today Media Network).

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    • Former Inmates Trained to Start Businesses

    June 7, 2011
    Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon-- A course called Lifelong Information For Entrepreneurs, or LIFE, is providing women inmates the skills to start their own small businesses after they are released (NPR).

    Female Prison Inmates Trained To Start Businesses

    The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars

    April 7, 2011
    What’s it like to give birth or raise an infant, inside the walls of a prison? Or even worse, have to give up your child the day it’s born? On this edition, a look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside Americas jails and prisons. (Making Contact, the National Radio Project)

    The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars

    Making Contact - the National Radio Project

    When the Victim Is Jailed

    October 18, 2010

     Women and girls are being incarcerated in record numbers, often after years of sexual violence and addiction.

    Survivors of Abuse in Prison Fact Sheet

    October 18, 2010

    Women of all cultures, races, sexual orientations, gender identities, income levels and ages experience abuse.

    Pathways to Prison:

    October 18, 2010

    Impact of Victimization in the Lives of Incarcerated Women.

    Rural sheriffs dealing with new problem: more women in jail

    August 2, 2010
    Meth and Measure 11 have led to a dramatic increase in women held in Oregon jails. Lack of education, transportation and drug treatment facilities have only compounded the problem in rural areas. (Oregonian)

    Plan will reactivate women's prison

    June 15, 2010
    Nearly a decade after the state closed its crowded and obsolete prison for women in Salem, corrections officials plan to move female convicts back to the same lockup here. (Statesman Journal)

    Plan will reactivate women's prison

    Health officials investigate outbreak at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville

    May 5, 2010
    Oregon health officials are investigating a rash of illnesses that has partially closed public visiting to Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. (The Oregonian)

    Health officials investigate outbreak at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville<

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