SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Overcrowding at Oregon’s prison for women at Wilsonville has prompted a decision to reopen a women’s facility at Salem.
The Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is packed with nearly 1,150 inmates. Prisoner managers are double-bunking inmates and using nearly 60 makeshift beds.
The state nearly a decade ago closed its crowded and obsolete prison for women in Salem.
The compound currently operates as a 176-bed men’s minimum-security prison, next door to the walled Oregon State Penitentiary, a maximum-security men’s prison.
