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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, April 18, 2002
CONTACT:
Norma Land, 503-570-6405 norma.land@state.or.us
Perrin Damon, 503-945-0925 perrin.p.damon@state.or.us
The first inmate transport bus (see photo ) with 22 women on board arrives at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville at 8 a.m., Thursday, April 18.
The first medium-custody inmates (see photo ) cue up to receive their Prison Blues at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. Most of the first women to arrive are kitchen workers who will be on the job today.
Today marked the official opening of the medium custody facility at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. Fifty-six female inmates were transferred to the new prison’s medium custody complex. Additionally, the state’s prison intake center opened with the arrival of more than fifty male inmates newly committed to the Department of Corrections.
The transfer of inmates was delayed three days due to a fire that broke out Sunday evening, April 14, in the prison’s central computer room. That fire, deemed accidental by fire investigators, was attributed to the mechanical failure of a computer back-up power supply. All systems are now operating.
All but 25 of the state’s 672 female inmates will be housed at Coffee Creek. There are already 352 minimum custody inmates housed in the minimum facility that opened in October. The remaining 297 female inmates will be transferred over the next few weeks from Oregon Women’s Correctional Center in Salem and Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton. The 25 inmates not going to Coffee Creek are participating in the department’s boot camp program at Shutter Creek Correctional Institution in North Bend.
The department’s intake center is moving from the Clackamas County Jail in Oregon City to Coffee Creek. Both men and women entering prison will undergo evaluations and assessments for approximately a month prior to receiving their individual corrections plans. These plans specify how each state inmate will spend their time behind bars, including housing, program and work assignments.
The 928 beds in the medium complex comprise 432 male intake beds (324 to open this month); 432 female general population beds (324 to open this month); and 64 female special housing beds, all of which will open this month. The 64 special housing beds include disciplinary segregation, intensive management, administrative segregation, medical and psychiatric beds.
The prison’s open house and dedication ceremony was held on Saturday, April 6, 2002 with approximately 4,500 people attending from all corners of the state. The public was given the unique opportunity to tour the medium facility before the inmates arrived today.
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