The Oregon Department of Corrections plans to pay an outside consultant an estimated $550,000 over the next year to assess the prison system’s troubled health care system, records show. The state this week announced plans to hire Chicago-based Falcon Correctional and Community Services.

Oregon prison leaders fired two top officials Monday, a move they said was part of reforms to address longstanding medical care issues.

The agency ousted two top health care officials, including its chief of medicine, and plans a comprehensive review.

An outside lawyer interviewed Dr. Warren Roberts and Joe Bugher and delivered blunt assessments of their overall honesty. She wrote that she did not find Roberts to be credible and that Bugher “obfuscated,

The Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) announced this week a significant reform initiative to overhaul the division that provides healthcare to adults in cu