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Deschutes County jail staff broke a handcuffed inmate’s thumb, tore ligaments in his fingers and fractured his wrist while removing his ring at the jail in January 2022, according to
The suit argues Officer Zachary DeLong, since promoted to detective, failed to consider Delgado’s mental illness symptoms when he shouted commands and approached with a rifle. “He had available alternatives,” attorney Juan C. Chavez wrote in the suit. “He used none.”
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Department of Corrections Faces Legal Challenges as Employees Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Inmates claiming inadequate protection from COVID-19 receive favorable judgement in on-going case against DOC, as staff receives first vaccines As of Jan. 10, statewide 27 adults in custody incarcerated by the Department of Corrections have died after testing positive for COVID-19, according to the DOC's Response to the Novel Coronavirus in Oregon website. There are 604 active cases among AICs statewide—including 25 at the Deer Ridge Correctional Institute in Madras. Cases among DOC staff are s...