A4 THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2021
LOCAL, STATE & REGION
LOCAL BRIEFING
Tow truck driver jailed
for injuring pedestrian
A Redmond tow truck
driver received 30 days in
jail and a
five-year
driver’s
license
suspen-
sion for
seriously
injuring a
pedestrian Bills
and flee-
ing the scene.
Ryan Emery Bills, 26,
pleaded guilty to one count
of third-degree assault in
Deschutes County Circuit
Court.
Around 8 p.m. Oct. 30,
Bills was driving on NW
Sixth Street in Redmond
when he struck Nancy
Newman crossing at the
intersection with NW Jack-
pine Street. Witnesses told
police the driver of a white
tow truck fled after the col-
lision.
Surveillance cameras
from nearby businesses
show Newman was legally
crossing the street, accord-
ing to Redmond Police.
Bills was later arrested at
the office of his then-em-
ployer, Epic Towing in Red-
mond. Bills was charged
with second-degree assault
for allegedly showing “ex-
treme indifference” to New-
man. He was also charged
with hit-and-run and reck-
less endangering.
In addition to a month
of jail, Judge Bethany Flint
assigned him five years pro-
bation and ordered him
to complete a traffic safety
course with the National
Traffic Safety Institute, at-
tend a victim impact panel
and write a letter of apology
to Newman.
— Bulletin staff report
Inmates say managers exposed them to virus
JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
The Oregonian
As coronavirus outbreaks
rage at several Oregon prisons,
inmates at a minimum-secu-
rity facility in Salem are push-
ing for changes after they say
administrators sent dozens of
inmates who had just tested
positive for COVID-19 back
into the general population.
Inmates at the Santiam
Correctional Institution said
they’re increasingly concerned
about the way administrators
are handling the pandemic and
believe the Oregon Depart-
ment of Corrections has know-
ingly placed inmates in danger.
According to six inmates
at the Salem prison, ad-
ministrators began sending
COVID-positive inmates back
into their dormitories Jan. 21
— a day after the prison of-
fered mass testing that revealed
an outbreak of about 50 cases.
The inmates said some of
those who tested positive were
sent back to their dorms for
more than 24 hours before be-
ing transferred to a quarantine
unit.
Instead of cells, the men
housed in the minimum-se-
curity prison sleep in large
rooms lined with bunk beds.
There are four dorms, each
with about 100 units.
Inmates said they’ve repeat-
edly tried to push for testing
of those who feel sick, as well
as better sanitation protocols
throughout the prison.
But they reported their calls
often fall on deaf ears.
Department of Corrections
Spokeswoman Jennifer Black
said that 50 Santiam inmates
tested positive for COVID-19
on Jan. 20.
The department’s chief
medical officer requested tests
for all Santiam inmates who
wanted them, and the depart-
ment began working on trans-
portation plans for inmates
who tested positive.
Black said the inmates, who
were all asymptomatic, were
told to keep their masks on
while they waited to be moved
and were taken to the quar-
antine unit at the nearby Or-
egon State Penitentiary the
next day.
“If an adult in custody had
been symptomatic, he would
not have been held in gen-
eral population and would
have been transported to the
COVID-19 Recovery Unit at
Coffee Creek (Correctional
Facility) as soon as possible,”
Black said in an email.
She said that while Santiam
has offered mass testing only
once so far, it offers tests to all
inmates who request them.
She said 114 Santiam in-
mates have tested positive
since the beginning of the
pandemic and that 86 of them
have recovered, including the
50 who tested positive on Jan.
20.
Since the beginning of the
pandemic, 42 inmates have
died of coronavirus across all
of Oregon’s prisons.
Community college president steps down for health reasons
Blue Moun-
tain Com-
munity
College
President
Dennis Bai-
ley-Fougnier,
left, sits in
on a 2019
college
coordinat-
ing council
meeting in
Pendleton.
East Oregonian,
file
BY ANTONIO SIERRA
East Oregonian
PENDLETON — Near-
ing his two-year anniversary
as president, Dennis Bai-
ley-Fougnier resigned from
the top job at Blue Mountain
Community College on Thurs-
day.
The college board formally
accepted his resignation at a
special meeting, where they
also named John Fields, the
college’s vice president of in-
struction, as the school’s acting
president.
In a Friday press release,
the college stated that Bai-
ley-Fougnier was diagnosed
with cancer late last year, and
although he initially decided to
work through his treatment, he
was now turning his attention
toward his health.
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