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2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 10, Chapters 366 - 430
ORS Chapter 421
421.105 Enforcement of rules; violence and injury to inmates prohibited.
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OR Rev Stat § 421.105 (through Leg Sess 2011)
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(1) The superintendent may enforce obedience to the rules for the government of the inmates in the institution under the supervision of the superintendent by appropriate punishment but neither the superintendent nor any other prison official or employee may strike or inflict physical violence except in self-defense, or inflict any cruel or unusual punishment.
(2) The person of an inmate sentenced to imprisonment in the Department of Corrections institution is under the protection of the law and the inmate shall not be injured except as authorized by law. [Amended by 1953 c.476 5; 1969 c.502 9; 1987 c.158 75; 1987 c.320 165]
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