Dept Of Corrections Settles With Family Of Inmate Who Committed Suicide
(Portland, OR) -- Oregon's Department of Corrections is agreeing to a financial settlement with the family of a man who took his own life while being kept at the State Correctional Institution in Salem. Grayson Painter - who reportedly suffered from mental illness -- was being kept in a restrictive black box cell that limits light and sound and was allegedly encouraged by guards to kill himself. Painter committed suicide in his cell on June 29 of 2023. The Department of Corrections has agreed to a settlement of two-point-three-million dollars.



