Tillamook supervisor guilty of contraband scheme at inmate forest camp

A man found guilty of trading cigarettes for cash from inmates at a minimum-security forest prison camp has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. Phillip Soots pleaded no contest to one count of first-degree official misconduct for selling the contraband between August and December 2022, when he worked as a forest crew coordinator at the South Fork prison camp in Tillamook County, court records show..