Danielle Dawson

The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars and support for people after release

The state had recently expanded the novel program for providing one-on-one career coaching, job fairs behind bars, and support for people after release.

Thomas Van Hoose had been here before. Nearing the end of his third stint in an Oregon correctional facility on drug charges, he was thinking about what life on the outside would be like yet again.

Former residents of one of Oregon’s largest homeless encampments say they lost cars, work tools, irreplaceable family photos and other items

On the day last year the U.S. Forest Service evicted hundreds of homeless people from national forest land just outside Bend, Oregon, Chris Walston was in the hospital.

Former residents of one of Oregon's largest homeless encampments say they lost cars, work tools, irreplaceable family photos and other items

Former residents of one of Oregon’s largest homeless encampments say they lost cars, work tools, irreplaceable family photos and other items.

On the day last year the U.S. Forest Service evicted hundreds of homeless people from national forest land just outside Bend, Oregon, Chris Walston was in the hospital. Walston had been living in a sprawling encampment in the Deschutes National Forest — known by its residents and locals as “China Hat” after the access road that […]

Former residents of one of Oregon’s largest homeless encampments say they lost cars, work tools, irreplaceable family photos and other items as the U.S. Forest Service evicted people from federal land outside of Bend.

Former residents of one of Oregon’s largest homeless encampments say they lost cars, work tools, irreplaceable family photos and other items