Escalating liabilities soar faster than lawmakers appropriate money to pay settlements. By Nigel Jaquiss Oregon Journalism Project Last month, Oregon agreed to pay $49 million to COVID-afflicted state prison inmates. It’s the state’s biggest payout ever — and underscores an underlying liability that is far larger. The estates of 38 inmates who died are set to receive $33.1 million; $15.9 million will go to 5,000 inmates who contracted the vir…
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