A Beaverton man convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women in a sparse apartment that prosecutors said he rented to carry out the attacks was sentenced Tuesday to the equivalent of a true life ...

Two Multnomah County Sheriff’s deputies who tried to cover up their failure to make mandatory jail rounds have been sentenced to probation in separate cases. In both of them an inmate under ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A 19 year old will spend 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of killing two teens in a car wreck in Southeast Portland. Julius Lee Whitehurst had been driving ...

Lawson was serving a sentence for fatally stabbing his 22-year-old son in their Southeast Portland apartment in 2015. Prosecutors said he was high on methamphetamines and became enraged after his ...

An Astoria man was sentenced Friday to nearly two years in prison for striking and killing a pedestrian while driving recklessly in 2021. Jesse L. Holmes, 37, entered a no-contest plea in Clatsop ...

The contract is convenient for the federal government, due to the jail’s proximity to the federal court house in Portland, and it’s a strong source of revenue for the jail, Joyce told the ...

A Portland meth dealer who was incorrectly released from custody, and then later returned, has had his jail sentence halved on appeal.

RANDOLPH COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS/Gray News) - A convicted child molester has been released from a Missouri prison despite pleas from the people he molested. Nelson Paul Thompson was released on ...

The governor of Barlinnie says he would "struggle" to survive life inside his own overcrowded prison. Michael Stoney described Scotland's largest jail as a "pressure cooker" and said new early ...