Five state employees, four of whom work at the Powder River Correctional Facility in Baker City, have filed a lawsuit challenging Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
Five state employees, four of whom work at the Powder River Correctional Facility in Baker City, have filed a lawsuit challenging Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
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SALEM â By passing a bill, the state is poised to end a eight-month ordeal that nearly ended Blue Mountain Community Collegeâs corrections education program.
On April 8, the Oregon Senate followed the House in passing House Bill 5042, a spending bill that includes $542,033 for BMCC to help tie up some loose ends as it starts its new contract with the Oregon Department of Corrections.
Sen. Bill Hansell, R-Athena, who voted for the bill, said the allocation will act as a stopgap funding to cover the few months between the end of the BMCCâs old contract with the state prison system and the beginning of its new contract.
BAKER CITY â A former guard at the Powder River Correctional Facility, who has spent nearly a year behind bars at the Baker County Jail, will spend the next 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography charges on Tuesday, March 9, in Baker County Circuit Court.
Judge Matt Shirtcliff sided with District Attorney Greg Baxter in taking the harsher end of a plea agreement that ranged from five years to 15 years in prison in sentencing David Leon Cernazanu.
As part of the agreement, Cernazanu, 49, pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, a Class C felony.
Cernazanu will be given credit for time served and the ability to earn good time toward earlier release while in prison.