Oregon spends four times the national average on indigent defense yet thousands of cases have not been prosecuted because the ...

James Brauckmiller was sentenced to six months bench probation. He must surrender his police certification and resign from ...

A person died at the Multnomah County Detention Center Wednesday, officials said. Deputies found a person unresponsive in a jail cell around 12:15 p.m., the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office ...

The first person to die in a Multnomah County jail since July was a 46-year-old man booked on a theft charge, court records show. Carlos Robert Morris died in the Multnomah County Detention Center ...

The Portland Police Bureau said officers are on the scene negotiating with a suspect after he allegedly fired shots and then ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Kevin Dahlgren is back in Multnomah County Jail after pleading guilty Monday to charges of first ...

Dozens of people have agreed to deflection rather than going to jail for possessing small amounts of hard drugs in the first two months of Multnomah County’s new program. Read online ...

He was taken into custody by 7:23 p.m. and booked at the Multnomah County Detention Center. No one was injured during the arrest, police said.

Multnomah County says its new 24-hour sobering ... as a means of providing deflection services to people who accept treatment over jail. That location will be expanded to offer 13 sobering beds ...

The Multnomah County Justice Center in downtown Portland, which houses a jail and four courtrooms, as well as Portland Police Bureau' central precinct. Amanda Troxler / OPB Oregon has failed to ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega-Peterson declared an emergency during a press conference on Tuesday, a day before the Metro Area’s first real chance of snow this year.