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EOCI readies for inmate workers outside the fence
By eastoregonian.com
Published: 09/21/2016

The end is nigh for Pendleton’s 29-year agreement that bars Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution inmates from working outside the prison.

A 10-inmate crew and its overseeing officer from Two Rivers Correctional Institution, Umatilla, started landscaping work this week outside the Pendleton prison. Capt. Jeff Frazier at EOCI said staff are training with the Umatilla unit and screening minimum-custody inmates to work outside the fence come Oct. 24, a first for the facility.

“They will do work in the community,” he said.

Two Rivers spokesperson Sherry Iles said the training crew came from the Umatilla prison because it already has a minimum-security facility and provides inmate workers for community projects.

The Oregon Department of Corrections opened medium-security EOCI in Pendleton in 1985 after converting it from a state mental facility. Two years later, the state agreed to a deal with the city not to have inmates work outside the fence.

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