Oregon
Guides and facility information for Oregon, where the Department of Corrections runs 12 state prisons and calls people in its custody adults in custody — while people awaiting trial or serving shorter sentences are held in county jails.
The Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC) runs the state’s 12 state prisons and holds about 12,000 people, as of early 2026. The agency calls people in its custody adults in custody, or AICs.
The line between a state prison and a county jail is sentence length. A felony sentence of more than one year is served in an ODOC state prison; a sentence of one year or less, and almost all detention before trial, is served in a county jail run by the county sheriff. Some serious and violent crimes carry mandatory minimum prison terms under Measure 11. So a person awaiting trial or serving a short sentence is held in a county jail, not a state prison — and that county sets its own visiting, mail, and phone rules.
Almost everyone entering an Oregon state prison starts in one place: the Coffee Creek Intake Center in Wilsonville. Both men and women go through intake there — about 30 days of medical, mental-health, and custody screening. Personal visits are not allowed during intake; contact is by phone and mail until it is finished. After intake, men transfer to one of the men’s prisons, and women stay at Coffee Creek, which is also Oregon’s only women’s prison.
The men’s prisons include the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem — the state’s only maximum-security prison and its oldest, on its Salem site since 1866 — and Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario, the largest, in the far eastern corner of the state near the Idaho border. Others are spread from Portland (Columbia River) to central and eastern Oregon (Deer Ridge, Two Rivers, Eastern Oregon, Warner Creek, Powder River).
To find where someone is held, search the Oregon Offender Search by name or by SID number — the State Identification number Oregon assigns each person. For custody and release updates, Oregon uses VISOR, a free notification system that replaced VINE. If a person does not appear in the Oregon Offender Search, they are most likely in a county jail — awaiting trial or serving a short sentence — so contact that county’s jail.
Use the guides below for the statewide rules at ODOC prisons, or go straight to a specific facility.
State guides
Visiting in Oregon (ODOC)
How to get on an Oregon adult in custody's visiting list with the CD-50 application, the no-blue dress code, what counts as ID, and how scheduling and the visiting-points system work.
Mail & Packages in Oregon (ODOC)
How to address mail to an Oregon adult in custody with their SID number, the plain white-paper and envelope rules, the publisher-only rule for books, and Oregon's move toward scanning mail to tablets.
Phone & Video Calls in Oregon (ODOC)
Why the adult in custody places the call, the free ICSolutions account families set up and the phone-number validation it requires, current call and video costs to confirm at the source, and Oregon's move to personal tablets.
Sending Money in Oregon (ODOC)
The two ways to put money on an Oregon trust account — an electronic deposit through an ODOC-approved vendor, or a money order mailed to Central Trust — with the exact payee, SID requirement, and address.
Medical & Mental Health in Oregon (ODOC)
Oregon charges no routine medical co-pay; how ODOC Health Services delivers care, why staff need a signed release to talk to family, the grievance process, and the independent Office of Corrections Ombudsman.
Transfers & Finding Someone in Oregon (ODOC)
The one-year line between an Oregon state prison and a county jail, how everyone enters through the Coffee Creek Intake Center, why visits aren't allowed during intake, and how to find someone with the Oregon Offender Search.
Facilities
Women's facilities
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
Wilsonville · Minimum and medium (women); statewide intake center
Men's facilities
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
Wilsonville · Minimum and medium (women); statewide intake center
Columbia River Correctional Institution
Portland · Minimum security (men)
Deer Ridge Correctional Institution
Madras · Minimum security; medium facility largely off-line (men)
Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution
Pendleton · Medium security (men)
Oregon State Correctional Institution
Salem · Medium security (men)
Oregon State Penitentiary
Salem · Maximum security (men)
Powder River Correctional Facility
Baker City · Minimum security (men)
Santiam Correctional Institution
Salem · Minimum security (men)
Snake River Correctional Institution
Ontario · Medium security, with minimum custody (men)
South Fork Forest Camp
Tillamook · Minimum security, Level 1 (men) — no perimeter fence
Two Rivers Correctional Institution
Umatilla · Medium and minimum security (men)
Warner Creek Correctional Facility
Lakeview · Minimum security (men)
Organizations that help families
Independent organizations in this state that support families of incarcerated people. They are not affiliated with this site, and their services and contact details can change — contact an organization directly to confirm what it offers.
Partnership for Safety and Justice
Oregon's leading criminal-justice reform organization, advancing public-safety policy for people convicted of crime, survivors, and the families of both; "keeping families together" is a core value, and they helped secure programs like the Family Sentencing Alternative Program so incarcerated parents can remain connected to their children.
Oregon Justice Resource Center (OJRC)
A social-justice nonprofit working to dismantle mass incarceration and systemic discrimination through legal services and advocacy, running the Oregon Innocence Project, Women's Justice Project, Youth Justice Project, Immigrant Rights Project, and Civil Rights Project.
Oregon CURE
A criminal-justice advocacy nonprofit that directly supports families and friends of people in prison — holding monthly regional support-group meetings and quarterly orientations (in cooperation with the Oregon DOC) for families of recently imprisoned people, plus a quarterly newsletter for members and people in custody.
Family Preservation Project (FPP)
A trauma-informed program supporting children impacted by incarceration, their incarcerated mothers, and caregiving families — offering therapeutic visitations, parenting education, reentry assistance, and policy advocacy (it helped pass Oregon's Bill of Rights for Children of Incarcerated Parents), operating primarily at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Kairos Prison Ministry of Oregon
A Christian prison-ministry nonprofit serving incarcerated people and their families in Oregon; its Kairos Outside program specifically supports the spouses, parents, and relatives of incarcerated people, and Kairos Inside builds faith community inside facilities.