As with all unanticipated deaths in state prisons, the Oregon State Police Criminal Investigation Division is conducting an investigation.
Staff were medically treating Avis Woodrum, 60, when he passed away in TRCI’s Health Services Unit. Emergency Medical Technicians pronounced Woodrum deceased at 8:53 a.m.
Woodrum entered DOC custody on Aug. 30, 2011, on one count of kidnapping in the second degree out of Marion County. His earliest release date was March 25, 2017.
