The safety inspector for all of the Oregon prisons came in to talk to the prisoners at CCCF who wrote to the regional chapter of OSHA about the unsafe conditions here. He was well aware of them, but has no authority over the Department of Corrections. He said he proposed some safety changes back in 2007, but that DOC said no to them. Why is there no authority or accountability over DOC? Especially when people’s lives are at stake?
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