Portland and Bend are about 3 hours apart. Portland is 1.5 hours from the coast.
Portland is at the north end of the Willamette Valley, at the convergence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers. Bend is just over the mountains that form the eastern side of the Willamette Valley. The coastal range forms the western side of the Willamette Valley.
HOWEVER... Burns is much further away from Portland than Bend. It is 5 hours from Portland. I think your source is pretty mixed up. It makes no sense to take someone from Malhuer County to Bend. That is about a 7 hour drive, from the eastern border 2/3 to 3/4 of the way across the state. Burns makes more sense.
My son’s killer was tried in Shelby CO...Memphis, TN, he was housed in Johnson City, which is the furthest east state prison in the State. And when parole hearings came up we had to drive there at OUR expense. Almost a 19 hr drive one way. Which mean lay overs coming and going at our expense.
Only crime victims know these facts. And I suspect Tennessee isn’t the only State that makes the victims pay for their transportation with no form of reimbursement.
We did get a law passed that Video, audio testimony could be used for those not capable of such travel. But it is best to show up in person.
Visitors to the prisoners should have to pay for their own travel, but the Victim fighting a parole hearing should be reimbursed for the travel. And we should be excused the portion of taxes that are paid for the criminal’s upkeep. It’s rubbing salt into the wound.
Thanks.
It’s been a long time since I was in Oregon. At that, it was the Western part.