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Oregon State Prisons and Juvenile Facilities

Oregon is one of the few states that has never relied on private prisons for long. Every prison in the state is run by the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC), which the Legislature created in June 1987. Oregon’s prison history is much older: the Oregon State Penitentiary moved to Salem in 1866, and for more than half a century it was the state’s only prison. A short-lived 1996 experiment with sending prisoners to private prisons in Texas and Arizona ended after escapes and other problems.

Size of the system

As of May 2026, DOC held 12,124 adults in custody (the department’s term for people in prison), including 924 women. Only people sentenced to more than 12 months go to state prison; shorter sentences are served in county jails. The typical stay, not counting life sentences, is a little over five and a half years, and the average age of people in custody is 43. DOC operates 12 institutions:

Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem: the state’s only maximum-security prison
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Wilsonville: Oregon’s only full-service prison for women and the state’s intake center
Snake River Correctional Institution, Ontario: the largest prison, near the Idaho border
Columbia River Correctional Institution, Portland
Deer Ridge Correctional Institution, Madras
Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution, Pendleton
Oregon State Correctional Institution and Santiam Correctional Institution, Salem
Powder River Correctional Facility, Baker City
South Fork Forest Camp, Tillamook, which trains wildfire crews
Two Rivers Correctional Institution, Umatilla
Warner Creek Correctional Facility, Lakeview

The system has been shrinking. Mill Creek in Salem and Shutter Creek in North Bend were closed under a 2021 plan by Gov. Kate Brown, and in November 2025, facing budget cuts, DOC listed closing Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution and South Fork Forest Camp among possible reductions. Neither closure had been approved when lawmakers took up the budget in early 2026, but families with someone at either site should watch for news.

Intake at Coffee Creek

Both men and women begin their sentences at the Oregon Corrections Intake Center, part of the Coffee Creek campus in Wilsonville, south of Portland. DOC takes in about 370 people a month. At intake, staff complete health, mental health and needs assessments and decide which prison each person will go to. Men then move to one of the men’s institutions, while women generally stay at Coffee Creek.

Coffee Creek has faced hard questions. A 229-page state review released in 2023 described a culture of retaliation, gaps in mental health staffing and a high rate of suicide attempts compared with men’s prisons. Gov. Tina Kotek ordered immediate changes, and advocates have called for replacing it with smaller regional facilities.

How to look someone up

DOC’s Oregon Offender Search shows where an adult in custody is housed. You can search by name or by SID number, the State Identification Number Oregon assigns to each person. Put the SID number on all mail and deposits.

Oregon’s death penalty

Oregon still has the death penalty on paper, but no one lives on death row. Gov. John Kitzhaber declared a moratorium on executions in November 2011, and every governor since has kept it. On December 13, 2022, Gov. Kate Brown commuted the sentences of all 17 people then on death row to life without parole. A 2019 law also sharply narrowed which crimes can be charged as aggravated murder. Oregon has executed only two people since 1976, both men who gave up their appeals: Douglas Franklin Wright in 1996 and Harry Charles Moore in 1997, by lethal injection. The state carried out 122 executions before 1976, by hanging and later in a gas chamber first used in 1939. Oregon voters abolished and restored capital punishment more than once over the past century. Any execution would take place at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

Oregon juvenile facilities

The Oregon Youth Authority (OYA), created in 1996, runs the state’s secure youth correctional facilities. The largest is MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn, and young women are housed at Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility in Albany. OYA also holds young people convicted in adult court for crimes committed before age 18, who can stay in its custody until 25 before moving to an adult prison if time remains. Youth awaiting a court hearing are held in county juvenile detention centers. Juvenile records are confidential, so families should contact OYA directly for information.

To search for an inmate or juvenile, or to learn how to visit, call, write or send money to someone in the Oregon Department of Corrections or Oregon Youth Authority, choose a facility from the list below.