After too many prisoners escaped from the original Oregon State Penitentiary inside the city of Portland, the decision was made to build a new facility on 26 acres on the outskirts of Salem. With so ...
The “Oregon Boot” — originally called the “Gardner Shackle” — was invented and patented by Oregon State Penitentiary Warden J.C. Gardner in 1866. It was described as “the dread of the captured ...