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‘It’s just a matter of time’: Inmates detail horrid conditions amid COVID spike in Oregon prisons
Updated Jan 30, 2021;
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Frances Lanegan has watched with a growing sense of dread over the past month as coronavirus cases have exploded where she lives.
Her home for the moment is Coffee Creek Correctional Institution. Lanegan, a 56-year-old inmate, is serving a three-year sentence after a drug conviction last year. Of the 219 coronavirus cases at the Wilsonville facility since the beginning of the pandemic, 164 have been diagnosed in the past three weeks.
She and her cellmate both tested negative on Dec. 19 and 28, but when tested again on Jan. 6, Lanegan’s cellmate tested positive, though she did not. Lanegan expected to be moved, but when she asked the guards, they told her that since she had already been exposed, she would be staying with her infected cellmate.
Why would state prison inmates turn down an offer for early release during pandemic?
The stunning choice in the face of a growing coronavirus outbreak flummoxed corrections staff
Updated on Dec 20, 2020;
Published on Dec 20, 2020
Jeffery Lawson is one of two state inmates who turned down Gov. Kate Brown s offer of a commuted sentence to reduce prison populations during the pandemic. Oregon Department of Corrections
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At first Jeffery Lawson couldn’t believe his good luck. The governor had stamped his get-out-of-jail-free card.
But over the following days, his thrill turned into a reality check.
He thought about his miserable, yearslong addiction to methamphetamine and heroin and how it had wrecked his family ties and cycled him in and out of prison.