UMATILLA — After a power outage at Two Rivers Correctional Institution left approximately 600 inmates largely in darkness on the prison’s east side for more than a week during a
UMATILLA — After a power outage at Two Rivers Correctional Institution left approximately 600 inmates largely in darkness on the prison’s east side for more than a week during a
UPS driver dies from assault; co-worker taken in custody
WATERTOWN, Conn. â A UPS employee sought in a deadly assault on a co-worker was taken into custody Wednesday, Connecticut state police said.
The suspect, Elijah David Bertrand, 19, had been sought by authorities since Tuesday night when a fellow UPS worker was found suffering from injuries.
The two men apparently were riding in the same vehicle before the assault, Connecticut State Police Trooper Joseu Dorelus said at a news conference. The motive was unknown. A weapon was recovered at the scene, Dorelus said.
Bertrand was located and taken into state police custody, the agency said on Twitter. It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney.
‘I feel helpless’: Inmates at one of Oregon’s largest prisons endure power outage amid COVID outbreak
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
A cell block at the Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla County in 2014. (Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian/OregonLive)
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Anthony White, an inmate at Two Rivers Correctional Institute in eastern Oregon, knew things were going to get bad when he heard the news.
Another inmate who works in the prison infirmary told White several people had just been transferred to Two Rivers from the Deer Ridge prison in Madras. All of the new arrivals had tested positive for COVID-19.
UMATILLA â Inmates at Two Rivers Correctional Institution, Umatilla, raised approximately $15,000 in donations for Agape House, a nonprofit food bank, and Marthaâs House, a transitional family shelter, in Hermiston.
The effort comes from a group of over a dozen adults in custody who call themselves the âParadigm Shift Club.â
The groupâs mission statement is âshifting societyâs view of AICs, shifting how AICs look at staff, the way staff look at AICs and trying to get everybody to work together for common causes,â according to James Cambell, a recreation specialist for Two Rivers Correctional Institution.
The fundraiser was meant to be a local effort to help institutions such as Marthaâs House, which often serves families with a loved one who is incarcerated and will occasionally provide discounted housing for formerly incarcerated individuals, Cambell said. The group raised $10,068.79 for the shelter.