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An Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) adult in custody, Jeffery Foret, died on the morning of January 14, 2019. He was incarcerated at the Santiam Correctional Institution.
Foret entered DOC custody on September 25, 2018, out of Marion County. His earliest release date was January 27, 2021. Foret was 42 years old. Next of kin has been notified.
As with all in-custody deaths, the Oregon State Police have been notified and the Medical Examiner will determine cause of death. DOC takes all deaths in state custody seriously. The agency is responsible for the care and custody of 14,900 men and women who are incarcerated in 14 institutions across the state.
SCI is a minimum-security prison in Salem that houses approximately 440 male inmates who are within four years of release. The facility concentrates on work opportunities, most of which are in the form of work crews contracting with state agencies, local organizations, and private industries within a 60-mile radius of Salem. SCI provides a range of other correctional programs and services including education, transition programs, and religious services. The building that is now SCI was constructed in 1946 and originally was used as an annex to the Oregon State Hospital for mental health patients. Over the years it was used for a variety of correctional purposes until, in 1990, it opened as SCI.