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No Earthquake Damage Reported at State Prisons
For Release: February 28, 2001
Contact: Perrin Damon, 503-945-0925
All seven state prisons in the north Willamette Valley are secure following the earthquake at approximately 11 a.m. today.
Staff in the prisons reported, to varying degrees, feeling the earthquake. Staff in all of the prisons and the central office in Salem are checking their physical facilities for damage. No damage had been discovered as of 11:45 a.m.
The prisons that reported feeling the earthquake are Columbia River Correctional Institution (484-bed minimum) in Portland and South Fork Forest Camp (150-bed minimum) near Tillamook in addition to five prisons in Salem: Oregon State Penitentiary (1832-bed maximum), Oregon State Correctional Institution (878-bed medium), Oregon Women's Correctional Center (186-bed medium), Santiam Correctional Institution (390-bed minimum) and Mill Creek Correctional Facility (310-bed minimum).
Shutter Creek Correctional Institution near North Bend is also checking their physical facility although there is no indication that the earthquake was felt at that prison.
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