Biography
Loretta Hill was a Klamath/Paiute woman imprisoned at Oregon Women's Correctional Center in 1995. GroundWork issue 6, published in April 1996, describes her effort to obtain Native religious ceremonies and the support campaign concerning her treatment in segregation. This profile records her documented prison-rights history; the source does not establish the offense or admission date of her original imprisonment.
Loretta Hill was a Klamath/Paiute woman imprisoned at Oregon Women's Correctional Center in 1995. GroundWork issue 6, published in April 1996, describes her effort to obtain Native religious ceremonies and the support campaign concerning her treatment in segregation. This profile records her documented prison-rights history; the source does not establish the offense or admission date of her original imprisonment.
The contemporary report names Hill and Oregon SID 8541159. It describes her confinement in the isolation segregation unit in February 1995, a return to the general population and a return to segregation within two weeks. These are changes within an existing prison term, rather than a dated first admission or release from custody. The account describes a campaign for access to Native religious practice. Its assertion that ceremonies had not been permitted must be read alongside the 1996 thesis account, which reports that a feather and a shackled pipe ceremony were permitted in August 1995 after legal efforts. This does not establish regular access thereafter. Her initial offense, prison admission date, actual release date and present custody status are not established by these historical sources. No sentence endpoint or current custody flag has been inferred.
