Subpar medical care, lack of suicide precautions led to many of the 10 deaths in Oregon jails in 2020, report finds
Updated Feb 08, 2021;
Posted Feb 08, 2021
One of those who died was Jennifer McLaren, 26. She died from undiagnosed pneumonia at the Northern Oregon Corrections Facility, known as Norcor, in The Dalles in January 2020 after she was taken into custody on a probation violation for a drug possession conviction, the Disability Rights Oregon report said.
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Though Oregon’s jail population fell last year in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the number of deaths in jails across the state appear to have gone up, largely due to substandard medical or mental health care, improper restraint of an inmate and inadequate suicide precautions, according to a new study made public Monday.