The Northern Oregon Corrections Facilities board released its response to a scathing Disability Rights Oregon report on NORCOR’s Juvenile Detention Center released last week, calling DRO’s claim of the facility as inhumane “totally irresponsible.”  In a letter approved during the board’s Thursday meeting, NORCOR acknowledges there are areas of the juvenile facility that require improvement and have been changed, but they also deemed various aspects of the DRO report “exaggerated or inaccurate.”  The letter says contrary to the findings in the report, youth at NORCOR receive initial and regular screenings for self-harm behavior, those removed from group settings for unsafe or disruptive behavior have access to educational resources and mental health and medical staff, consistent family visitation is encouraged, and there is a documented 5.5 hours of education daily.  NORCOR board chair Rod Runyon thinks the facility is on the right road, noting he had talked to representatives of various counties that contract to send youth to the facility, and in one conversation told them he was “well-satisfied about our people, our staff, the director of the juvenile side, that we’re doing all the things and where we need to make corrections we’re getting them done.”  Juvenile directors in the four NORCOR counties met with administrator Bryan Brandenburg to go over changes, and the Oregon Youth Authority was to tour the center Thursday.  At the meeting, Brandenburg said an audit of the adult jail at NORCOR has passed 306 of 309 standards in an Oregon State Sheriff’s Association audit, and Sherman County Sheriff and OSSA board member Brad Lohrey said it one of the best jail audits he had ever heard.