Editing Wasco County, Oregon (section)

==Government and infrastructure==
The Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facility (Norcor), a short-term jail, serves Wasco, [[Gilliam County, Oregon|Gilliam]], [[Hood River County, Oregon|Hood River]], and [[Sherman County, Oregon|Sherman]] counties.<ref>"[http://www.norcor.co.wasco.or.us/ Norcor Home] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124033718/http://www.norcor.co.wasco.or.us/ |date=November 24, 2011}}." Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facility. Retrieved on November 22, 2011.</ref>

Politically, Wasco is a swing county. No presidential candidate has won more than 55% of the county's vote since [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984. From 1972 to 2008, it voted for the election's national winner every time except the drought and farm crisis-influenced 1988 election; Obama lost here by just 18 votes or 0.2% of the popular vote in 2012.

Wasco County is currently one of 11 counties in Oregon in which therapeutic psilocybin is legal.

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