Another 14 men have filed a lawsuit against the Oregon Youth Authority, accusing the agency of ignoring repeated claims that a longtime physician at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn was sexually abusing incarcerated youth.
At least 82 individuals in 11 lawsuits have now filed claims against OYA in 2025.
The complaint, filed Dec. 5 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, accuses the same former doctor, Edward Gary Edwards, of years of sexual abuse. Edwards died in February and was the sole doctor at MacLaren from the late 1990s through at least 2017…