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Oregon Prison Inmates Were Evacuated From Wildfires Onto the Home Turf of Their Former Gang Associates “Hey, dude, don’t eat the food. The white dudes in the kitchen are putting stuff in the food.” Oregon State Penitentiary (Chris Nesseth) Updated January 13 It had been a long night, and Derrick Jermaine Jay wanted a cup of coffee. That was a bad idea. On the morning of Sept. 9, 2020, Jay awakened on the floor of the Oregon State Penitentiary. He and the 250 or so other men who had slept on the floor around him didn t get the best night of sleep. They had arrived in the middle of the night after standing outside the prison under a blood-red sky for hours as ash rained down.
UMATILLA â Brandon Baker was already feeling symptoms when officials at Two Rivers Correctional Institution carried out a sick inmate from two cells down.
Another inmate, four cells away, said he saw the same inmate lying on his bed ill for nearly two weeks, receiving little care.
âHe looked like death,â the inmate, who asked for anonymity out of fear of retaliation, said. âI walked by and told him, âGet better broâ and he didnât even move. Like, comatose on his bed.â
The sick inmate, who was between 50 and 60 years old and was serving his sentence at TRCI, reportedly died on Saturday, Jan. 2, after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a press release that did not identify him by name. Heâs one of two inmates who have recently died as the institution endures the largest surge in COVID-19 cases among prisons in Oregon, with 235 active cases as of Wednesday, Jan. 6, according to data from the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC)
2 die, nearly 400 inmates sickened after COVID-19 outbreak at Oregon prison
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
Posted Jan 09, 2021
Nearly 400 inmates at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19 since Dec. 10, 2020, according to data from the Department of Corrections. Since the beginning of December 2020, 50 prison staff have also tested positive. (Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian)
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By Bryce Dole, East Oregonian
UMATILLA Brandon Baker was already feeling symptoms when officials at Two Rivers Correctional Institution carried out a sick inmate from two cells down.
Another inmate, four cells away, said he saw the same inmate lying on his bed ill for nearly two weeks, receiving little care.
UPS driver dies from assault; co-worker taken in custody
WATERTOWN, Conn. â A UPS employee sought in a deadly assault on a co-worker was taken into custody Wednesday, Connecticut state police said.
The suspect, Elijah David Bertrand, 19, had been sought by authorities since Tuesday night when a fellow UPS worker was found suffering from injuries.
The two men apparently were riding in the same vehicle before the assault, Connecticut State Police Trooper Joseu Dorelus said at a news conference. The motive was unknown. A weapon was recovered at the scene, Dorelus said.
Bertrand was located and taken into state police custody, the agency said on Twitter. It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney.
Power out at Oregon prison amid COVID-19 outbreak
December 23, 2020 GMT
UMATILLA, Ore. (AP) One of Oregon’s largest prisons experiencing another COVID-19 outbreak has been grappling with a major power outage for the last week.
The outage at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla began on Dec. 16 and has affected six housing units and about 600 inmates, or a third of the prison’s total population, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported. Staff and outside contractors have been on site trying to determine the cause and how best to resolve it, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections.
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Prisons officials don’t yet have a firm timeframe for when power will be restored.