Arrests, Abuse, Lawsuits Hit Oregon Women's Prison

This articles describes staff sexual misconduct committed by a landscape manager at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women's prison, in Portland, Oregon. The defendant was convicted of custodial misconduct in 2009, and it seeks to an issue where state authorities have paid $1.2 million to 17 current and former inmates to settle lawsuits stemming from sexual abuse by corrections workers.