Measure 110 advocate takes to the road
PENDLETON — One Oregonian is traveling the state to discuss the benefits of the state’s Measure 110.
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PENDLETON — One Oregonian is traveling the state to discuss the benefits of the state’s Measure 110.
Kyle Hedquist was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Roseburg teen Nikki Thrasher in 1994. His sentenced was commuted in April 2022 by then Governor Kate Brown; four month
Kyle Hedquist and Kyle Black served more than 25 years each in Oregon prisons after pleading guilty to separate murders. Now they're fixtures in criminal justice policy talks at the state Capitol.
This article first appeared in Bolts Magazine and is republished with permission. One of the first things they saw when they walked into the prison was the wheelchairs. One after another, something like 40 chairs and walkers were lined up neatly outside each cell, stretching away into the distance. It was a jarring sight even for Kyle Hedquist, who’d worked for many years as a hospice volunteer during the decades he spent locked up there....
Proposed legislation would ease the extraordinarily difficult road that incarcerated Oregonians face in securing compassionate release.