MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility

MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility is a correctional facility in Woodburn

Woodburn, Oregon

Woodburn is a city in Marion County, Oregon, United States. Incorporated in 1889, the community had been platted in 1871 after the arrival of the railroad. The city is located in the northern end of the Willamette Valley along Interstate 5 between Portland and Salem...

, Oregon

Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

, United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. It is administered by the Oregon Youth Authority

Oregon Youth Authority

The Oregon Youth Authority is a state agency of Oregon, headquartered in Suite 200 of the 530 Center St. NE building in Salem. The agency operates juvenile corrections....

. MacLaren incarcerates males from ages 13 to 25 who have committed crimes ranging from Assault and Sex Offenses to murder.

One of MacLaren's most infamous residents was Kip Kinkel

Kip Kinkel

Kipland Philip "Kip" Kinkel is an American spree killer. In May 1998, at the age of 15, he murdered his parents and engaged in a school shooting at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon that left two students dead and 22 others wounded...

, who in 1998 murdered his two parents, as well as two students at his Springfield, Oregon

Springfield, Oregon

Springfield is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Southern Willamette Valley, it is within the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. Separated from Eugene to the west, mainly by Interstate 5, Springfield is the second-most populous city in the metropolitan area...

, high school. On June 11, 2007 aged 24, Kinkel was moved to the Oregon State Correctional Institution

Oregon State Correctional Institution

Oregon State Correctional Institution is a medium security prison located in Salem, Oregon, United States and is operated by the Oregon Department of Corrections...

to serve the remainder of his de facto life sentence.

Another famous resident of Maclaren's was Gary Gilmore

Gary Gilmore

Gary Mark Gilmore was an American criminal, and murderer, who gained international notoriety for demanding that his own death sentence be fulfilled following two murders he committed in Utah. He became the first person executed in the United States after the U.S...

, who was sent there in 1955 for several charges including shoplifting, car theft, and assault and battery. He was later executed by firing squad in 1976 for two murders committed when he was 36 years old, being the first person executed since the Furman v. Georgia

Furman v. Georgia

Furman v. Georgia, was a United States Supreme Court decision that ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty. The case led to a de facto moratorium on capital punishment throughout the United States, which came to an end when Gregg v. Georgia was...

case.

MacLaren is the home of both Project POOCH

Project POOCH

Project POOCH is a 501 non-profit organization that aims to rehabilitate incarcerated youths by actively training difficult-to-adopt dogs....

, a rehabilitation program that pairs inmates with dogs, and the University of Hope, a program that engages youth with community members through workshops and mentor programs.

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