Updated: 6:06 PM PST February 3, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. Multnomah County gave 108 inmates at the Inverness Jail the COVID-19 vaccine on Feb. 2, according to county spokesperson Julie Sullivan-Springhetti.
Corrections and health staff at the jail were offered the vaccine in January.
The news comes around the same time the county confirmed 107 inmates at Inverness Jail had tested positive for COVID-19 since Jan. 15, 2021. According to the county, only a small number of inmates have developed symptoms, and no deaths have been reported.
There are currently 532 people jailed at that location, meaning about 20% of the Inverness inmate population has gotten the vaccine.
Sullivan-Springhetti said she wasn t sure when the next round of vaccines would be offered to inmates at Inverness.
Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth, who was elected without opposition to the post last year, agreed. I think it s working as intended, he said of Measure 11. Regarding the proposals in Salem, he said they re designed to benefit the criminal defense and take power away from prosecutors, making it more difficult to prove our cases and lessen sentences once we do.
Multnomah County D.A. Mike Schmidt is the lone reformer, at least in the metro area.
In a statement on Jan. 8, Schmidt, Wasco County District Attorney Matt Ellis and Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel signed on to lawmakers reform efforts.
Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth, who was elected without opposition to the post last year, agreed. I think it s working as intended, he said of Measure 11. Regarding the proposals in Salem, he said they re designed to benefit the criminal defense and take power away from prosecutors, making it more difficult to prove our cases and lessen sentences once we do.
Multnomah County D.A. Mike Schmidt is the lone reformer, at least in the metro area.
In a statement on Jan. 8, Schmidt, Wasco County District Attorney Matt Ellis and Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel signed on to lawmakers reform efforts.
Clackamas County District Attorney John Wentworth, who was elected without opposition to the post last year, agreed. I think it s working as intended, he said of Measure 11. Regarding the proposals in Salem, he said they re designed to benefit the criminal defense and take power away from prosecutors, making it more difficult to prove our cases and lessen sentences once we do.
Multnomah County D.A. Mike Schmidt is the lone reformer, at least in the metro area.
In a statement on Jan. 8, Schmidt, Wasco County District Attorney Matt Ellis and Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel signed on to lawmakers reform efforts.
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At the headquarters of the Multnomah County Department of Health, nine workers at the county s HIV clinic tested positive for COVID-19, forcing numerous others to quarantine and the clinic to shutter its doors for a four-day stretch in mid-December.
At the county s Donald E. Long Detention Center for juveniles, nine workers and three youth tested positive since the end of November, and jails operated by the Multnomah County Sheriff s Office have seen outbreaks of their own, with 13 inmates and 30 employees infected.