Good Morning, Portland! Expect some warm but overcast weather this weekend, and a bit of sun this afternoon. Let’s read the news, shall we? 📰
IN LOCAL NEWS:
• In 2025, Oregon reduced at least 380 sentences for prisoners across the state, after the Oregon Supreme Court ruled that judges can include time they served while awaiting sentences toward their full sentence. It gave a lot of people hope that they would get out early, but the Oregon Department of Corrections provided new guidance as Governor Tina Kotek paused the program last November, and the state ended up returning 17 people to prison. The Prison Journalism Project originally published a story about this yesterday, which you can read here, or you can read a republished version of it in your trusted Mercury font here…