Driving down any main thoroughfare in Bend, it’s hard not to notice “Help Wanted” signs lingering on the marquees of a variety of businesses, sometimes for months at a time. As of July 2017, Bend’s unemployment rate was a mere 3.7 percent, down from a 10-year high of 17.2 percent in March 2009, during the […]
A four-year-old program is saving taxpayers more than $10,000 per prisoner, per year, and making life better for people with chronic illnesses living behind bars. Since adopting the Living Well with Chronic Conditions program (LWCC) in 2012, more than 1,000 incarcerated adults in Oregon have improved their health and well-being by completing the course. According […]
Not that many decades ago, chain gangs were dragged out to do work on roads and other jobs needing to be done. Men were, literally, chained to one another and forced to work like beasts of burden. Why not—some people reasoned—they’re bad guys in jail and nobody gets a free lunch. Jails and state prisons […]
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