Lane County Inmates

Lane County Commissioners approve 2011-2012 budget

Reduce Mental Health Services provided by Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Psychiatric Hospital by $247,401 and reducing individual Commissioner budgets by $520 each (total of $2,600) to add back two deputy district attorney positions to Criminal Prosecution positions in the District Attorney’s Office and $50,000 contribution to the HSC. This General Fund adopted budget also includes another $3.8 million in reductions through several assumptions including: No cost of living increases, a moratorium on Time Management Sales, and no increase in health care costs. These personnel assumptions occur in all Lane County funds and departments. Any specific reductions that may occur to employee benefits need to be bargained with County labor unions. Lane County has been pursuing other cost saving and revenue enhancers throughout this current fiscal year including pursing more centralized purchasing, providing more services to partner agencies, pursuing energy savings measures, limiting use of personal vehicles for County purposes, continuously reviewing vacant positions, and reviewing voluntary separation opportunities for employees.

Death Row Inmates Convicted in Lane County: Who Are They? | KEZI

By Dan Corcoran

 

LANE COUNTY, Ore. -- The penalty phase for Angela McAnulty marks one of the few capital murder cases in Lane County in the last decade.

 

But there are five men currently on death row convicted of committing heinous crimes in Lane County.

 

Michael James Hayward has been on death row since 1996.  Hayward was convicted in the brutal beating death of store clerk Fran Wall at a west Eugene Dari-Mart in 1994.  During the penalty phase, Hayward testified that he read the Bible in prison, that he believed in God and that he cared about his victim's families.  It made little difference.  Hayward is now Lane County's longest-serving death row inmate.

 

Jesse Caleb Compton was convicted and sentenced to death in 1998.  Compton was convicted of murdering three-year-old Tesslynn O'Cull in 1997 with help from the girl's mother Stella Kiser.  O'Cull's lifeless body was discovered in a shallow grave near Sweet Home.

 

Conan Wayne Hale was arrested in the shooting deaths of three Springfield teenagers.  Hale has been on death row awaiting his fate since 1998.

 

Tried for the 1993 killing of James Salmu of Springfield, Jeffery Dale Tiner was finally convicted and sentenced to the death penalty in 2000.  Investigators say 18 months after Salmu was shot to death, his remains were found in the woods.

 

Convicted and sentenced to die in 2001, Travis Lee Gibson was one of four suspects involved in a drug-related robbery north of Eugene in 2000.

 

After an Oregon jury hands down a death sentence to someone convicted of aggravated murder, that sentence is automatically appealed to the state supreme court.  Several other appeals can follow in different state and federal courts, so that process can take years or even decades.

Lane County Jail inmates fight for better conditions

The American poorfarm and its inmates

Harney County — Inmates live in little shack resembling wood shed; no records. ... Lane County — Buildings need paint and repairs; vermin in all rooms; ...

University of Oregon extension monitor

Lane County — Population, 1920, 36166 ; cost of dependency, ... segregated in county records ; no case records whatever ; beds and inmates fairly clean. ...

Public health behind bars, from prisons to communities

One of the first programs designed to facilitate continuity of benefits for jail inmates was developed in Lane County, Oregon, in which SSI/SSDI and ...

Serving mentally ill offenders, challenges and opportunities for mental health professionals

Other "alternative programs" for fully sentenced inmates include a forest ... SERVICES PROVIDED Lane County Adult Corrections' mental health staff train ...