SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The state has shut down a minimum-security prison in Salem as planned, marking what corrections officials said was the first prison closure in Oregon history.
The Statesman Journal reported the last 18 inmates filed out of the 176-bed facility on Friday morning, headed to new quarters at the nearby Oregon State Penitentiary.
The move capped an inmate-relocation process that has dispersed nearly 100 other prisoners to corrections facilities across the state.
The closure of the men’s minimum-security prison, which opened in 1964 as the state’s first women’s prison, is part of a $2.5 million budget cut that includes laying off 63 prison system employees.
