[or-roots] Oregon Penitentiary Records

[Babe Fain]

  How do I go about getting record from the Oregon Penitentiary?
  I found the following Census record that has a man who may be my 
grandfather who disappeared after his wife died in 1887.  He left four 
children to be raised by their mother's parents.

  1900 US Census Oregon, Marion County, East Salem Precinct page 89
  Name of Institution:  Oregon State Penitentiary
  Robbins, James, w/m April 1854, 46, wd, Penn/Penn/Penn, miner