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The family book compares raising the seed of wheat with nurturing and loving a baby
You could say the seed was planted for his book The Baby and the Seed many years ago when Dr. Leland Bud Beamer was a young student at Cornell College in Iowa. I had a female professor who was really big on why we become who we are, he recalls. They didn t have all this scientific knowledge then, but they knew that a good beginning made a big difference.
He wrote a paper on the topic for the class, which became required reading. Something turned me on as far as a passion. The seed was there, Beamer said. You assume a child at that age isn t going to remember anything, so does it really make a difference what goes on if they re not going to remember it?
The past few months have highlighted the strange relationship between Umatilla County and the Oregon Department of Corrections.
Specifically, the relationship between the 80,000 people living outside the walls of our two prisons and the 3,200 men who live inside Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla and Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton.
Like most people who live in Umatilla County, I have friends and acquaintances who work or have worked at the prisons. And, like most people, I donât personally know any of the men currently behind bars.
What I do know about life inside the prisons is second hand. From the perspective of employees and family members. From tours and information provided by administration. From
PENDLETON â More than two months after the Oregon Department of Corrections informally agreed to a new deal with the stateâs community colleges, Blue Mountain Community College is closing in on a new contract to continue offering adult education classes at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution and Two Rivers Correctional Institution.
As a part of the new deal, BMCC no longer negotiates directly with the state prison system to pay for its programs. Instead, the DOC now has an agreement with the Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission, which is negotiating contracts with BMCC and the other community colleges that offer adult education courses in state prisons.
Oregon prisons report 41 deaths, 3,333 COVID-19 cases to date Salem Statesman Journal UP NEXT
The Oregon Department of Corrections has so far reported 41 deaths and 3,333 positive cases of COVID-19 among incarcerated individuals.
It has had 794 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among staff.
Here is a breakdown by location as of Jan. 27 of total positive cases:
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility: 219 inmates; 39 staff.
Coffee Creek Intake Center: 70 inmates; 12 staff.
Columbia River Correctional Institution: 245 inmates; 24 staff.
Deer Ridge Correctional Institution: 273 inmates; 43 staff.
Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution: 458 inmates; 74 staff.
Mill Creek Correctional Facility: 35 inmates; 15 staff.
Oregon State Correctional Institution: 244 inmates; 36 staff.
Oregon State Penitentiary: 385 inmates; 122 staff.