[1] Then Senator Mark Hatfield and Congressman Les AuCoin worked to help get Sheridan selected as the site for the prison.

[5] State and county governments expanded Sheridan's urban growth boundary to include the prison site in 1986, which opponents then fought in court.

[11] In December 1994, an additional 300 beds were added to the facility as a federal detention center for housing pre-trial inmates.

[12] The Oregon Legislature passed a law in 1999 that prevented inmates in federal prisons from voting in local elections.

[14] This small error of about 2000 people was enough to throw off the districts beyond their margin of acceptance and the Oregon Supreme Court ruled the Secretary must re-draw the boundary lines to match the correct data.

[1] Inmates at the minimum security camp can study to work as landscape gardeners and personal fitness trainers after their release from prison.

[19] In April 2007, federal prosecutors indicted 13 people, including a correction officer, James Stephen Rolen, at FCI Sheridan, on charges involving bribery and conspiracy to smuggle heroin, marijuana and drug paraphernalia into the prison.

Mr. Rolen was subsequently convicted and in March 2008 was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release.

[22] Hall and 30 other alleged members of the Rolling 60s, a subset of the Crips street gang, were arrested during an anti-gang operation involving the Portland Police Bureau and the FBI in December 2011.

[25] In late May 2018, 124 asylum seekers were transferred to FDC Sheridan[26] as a part of the Trump administration's "Zero Tolerance" immigration policy.

As the result of an emergency lawsuit by the ACLU of Oregon, failure to provide access to legal counsel was deemed unconstitutional.