Oregon State Penitentiary January 27, 1957 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, "The Manacled." "List of inmates (with dates of incarceration) at Oregon State Penitentiary": Oregon State Penitentiary Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), sometimes called Oregon State Prison, is a maximum security prison in Oregon, United States. Opened in 1851, the 2,242 capacity prison is the oldest prison in the state. The all-male facility is located in Salem and is operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections. OSP contains Oregon's death row, which houses most of the 37 people awaiting execution in Oregon. It also contains an intensive management wing, which is being transformed into
Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon Capital Bureau The Oregon Capital Bureau is a joint effort of several family-owned news publishers to improve news coverage of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. The bureau was launched in 2014 by the Pamplin Media Group, which owns 25 newspapers in the Portland Metropolitan Area and Central Oregon, and the EO Media Group, which owns 11 newspapers in Eastern Oregon and on the Oregon Coast. In 2015 the bureau launched the newsletter "Oregon Capital Insider". One of the leading advocates of establishing the bureau was Steve Forrester, president of the EO Media Group, and then publisher