Conrad Wilson
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107 appearances
19 recordings
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 13 Jun
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Oregon's constitution prohibits the, quote, harsh, degrading, or dehumanizing treatment of prisoners.
Yet according to the lawsuit, hundreds of adults in the state's prisons are held alone inside small windowless rooms, often for months.
The state limits disciplinary segregation to 90 consecutive days.
That's far longer than neighboring states, says Ben Hale, an attorney with the Oregon Justice Resource Center, which is representing the adults in custody.
State data show a recent upward trend of adults in custody held in solitary.
The Oregon Department of Corrections says it's committed to safe and humane operations.
For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.
Oregon has certainly become an outlier in the use of disciplinary solitary confinement, which in some ways is the most...
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Oregon's constitution prohibits the, quote, harsh, degrading, or dehumanizing treatment of prisoners.
Yet according to the lawsuit, hundreds of adults in the state's prisons are held alone inside small windowless rooms, often for months.
The state limits disciplinary segregation to 90 consecutive days.
That's far longer than neighboring states, says Ben Hale, an attorney with the Oregon Justice Resource Center, which is representing the adults in custody.
State data show a recent upward trend of adults in custody held in solitary.
The Oregon Department of Corrections says it's committed to safe and humane operations.
For NPR News, I'm Conrad Wilson in Portland.
We're bracing ourselves for this being the deadliest industrial tragedy in modern Washington state history.
Authorities say they don't expect to find any more survivors from Tuesday's rupture of a 900,000-gallon chemical tank at the Nippon Dynawave packaging company in Longview.
Governor Bob Ferguson says the impacts to the community and families are profound.
Officials say air quality and drinking water in Longview are not affected by the chemicals, though some did spill into the Columbia River.
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