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OR: Prison expansions bring small gains

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison expansions bring small gains JUNE 16, 2008 Ben Jacklet SPECIAL to the Argus Observer Ontario - The Oregon State Penitentiary was built in Portland in 1851 and relocated to Salem in 1866, where it remained the state?s only major prison for 100 years. Other facilities were built to supplement the penitentiary?s mission, but with the exception of a forest work camp in Tillamook, Oregon?s prisons were confined to Salem until 1985, when the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution opened in Pendleton. Then came the great expansion: the Powder River Correctional Facility was completed 350 miles east of Salem in Baker City in 1989, followed by a barrage of prisons named after bodies of water rather than towns: Mill Creek, Columbia River, Shutter Creek, Snake River, Two Rivers, Coffee Creek and Warner Creek...continue to full post

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