PENDLETON â Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton has been dealing with a series of recent conflicts between some members of its inmate population.
Ron Miles, superintendent executive assistant, said the âscufflesâ began the first week of June and involve groups of inmates who tend not to get along with each other. The conflicts have been intermittent, he said, but frequent enough to warrant attention from prison security.
âSo we are watching these pretty carefully,â he said.
The situation has not been serious enough to warrant locking down the facility, he said, and he was not aware of any staff suffering injuries from breaking up the skirmishes.
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UMATILLA COUNTY â Umatilla Countyâs two state prisons finished the first step of immunizing all adults in custody against COVID-19 this week by successfully offering the first doses to all inmates, according to spokespersons from the two prisons.
Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla finished offering first doses to all adults in custody at the prison on Wednesday, March 3, according to a TRCI spokesperson, which capped off initial vaccine efforts at the countyâs two prisons.
In all, 1,263 inmates at TRCI were vaccinated of the 1,726 offered a shot. The prison held two large clinics and three smaller ones to vaccinate its inmates.
East Oregonian on Monday, March 1.
Prison officials offered vaccines to 1,618 adults in custody during three clinics since vaccine efforts began at EOCI in February. In all, 1,081 inmates have been vaccinated, for an acceptance rate of approximately 67%.
The prison has also given 155 inmates a second dose, the spokesperson said.
The vaccinations come after a federal judge ordered the state in February to begin offering the vaccine to all adults in Oregon prisons as infection spread rapidly through the stateâs prison system in December 2020 and January. The order came during a larger case where a group of inmates criticized the state for its response to COVID-19 outbreaks in state prisons.
UMATILLA COUNTY — Vaccine efforts at Umatilla County prisons were halted this week as inclement weather forced the state to delay upcoming shipments, according to spokespersons from Two Rivers Correctional