Oregon State Penitentiary (Courtesy/Wikimedia Commons) Community college officials have just days to convince the state’s prison system to keep an inmate schooling system that has been in place for 20 years. Chemeketa Community College is one of six colleges under pressure to reform their work educating Oregon prisoners or lose[Read More…]
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Uncategorized Ten books you can’t read in Oregon prisons
Salem Reporter obtained through a public records request the list of over 1,600 books Oregon inmates aren’t allowed to get. The books are a small fraction of publications mailed to prisoners. Over the past three years, the Oregon Department of Corrections reviewed more than 65,000 books sent to inmates and[Read More…]
Uncategorized Oregon prisons ban dozens of technology and programming books over security concerns
(Salem Reporter file) Oregon’s Department of Corrections has banned dozens of introductory technology and coding books from state prisons over security concerns. The banned titles include “Windows 10 for Dummies,” “Python Programming For Beginners” and “Blockchain Revolution,” a narrative explaining how blockchain technology works and its application in finance, business,[Read More…]
