All but five of the 27 men on death row have been transferred out of the unit, many into the general population at the Oregon State Penitentiary, and several, including father-son bank bombers Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, to a handful of other prisons around the state.

Death row, for a decade located in a building on the grounds of the state penitentiary in Salem, is clearing out to make room for a disciplinary unit. The prison is the state’s only maximum-security prison.

Fourteen of the men will remain at the state penitentiary but now in the general population, according to the Oregon Department of Corrections. General population, where the vast majority of the state’s inmates are housed, applies to inmates who are not assigned to special prison housing units reserved for people with severe mental health or behavioral problems.

Among those in now in general population at the state penitentiary: Christian Longo, 46, who killed his wife, Mary Jane, and their three children, Zachery, Sadie and Madison; and Randy Guzek, 51, who was sentenced to death for the 1987 killings of Terrebonne couple, Rod and Lois Houser. Guzek was sentenced in 1988, making him the longest serving inmate on death row. Three other killers also had been in the unit since the late 1980s.

Four men went to Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, including Bruce Turnidge, 68, and son Joshua Turnidge, 44, the two behind the 2008 Woodburn bombings that killed two police officers, Woodburn police Capt. Tom Tennant and Oregon State Police senior trooper William Hakim, and injured a third. Jesse Compton, 43, sentenced to death out of Lane County in 1998 for the killing Tesslyn O’Cull, his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter, also was transferred to Two Rivers. The case led to the adoption of tougher child abuse reporting laws.

Another two inmates will remain at the state penitentiary but in special units; One is in the state penitentiary’s infirmary and another is in a unit for inmates with severe mental health and behavioral problems. One inmate has been transferred to Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton and one was moved to Snake River Correctional Institution in Ontario.

The five men still on death row, including Dayton Leroy Rogers, 66, considered Oregon’s most prolific serial killer, will be transferred in the coming weeks, an agency spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Victims this week began receiving automated notices about the transfers through the Oregon Department of Justice Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division.

Terri Hakim, whose husband died in the Woodburn bombing, said she was shocked to learn that her husband’s killers were moved to a prison that houses minimum- and medium-security inmates.

“I would think if someone is on death row they would be placed in a maximum-security prison,” she said in an email to The Oregonian. “I have been devastated by this new information.“

Jennifer Black, an agency spokeswoman, said officials made placement decisions on a case-by-case basis and considered “safety and security concerns, conflicts with other adults in custody and medical and mental health needs.”

She said five of the state’s 14 prisons have a security level that allows them to take inmates condemned to death.

“Our top priority is to run safe and secure prisons for both our employees and those in custody,” she said in a written statement. “No matter the housing unit, those with a death sentence will remain securely housed.”

With the moves comes a loss of prison privileges unique to death row, where the men were guaranteed single cells, for instance. Now they face the prospect of bunkmates. They can no longer keep their own, often voluminous, legal files in their cells with them.

But the transfers out of the unit will also mean they will get privileges available to general population inmates, like contact visits with friends and family. Visits with death row inmates took place behind a glass window.

Disbanding death row has been on the agency’s radar since 2016 when a prominent prison reform group recommended that Oregon shutter the unit to lessen the potential psychological harms associated with long-term segregation. Last month, Corrections Director Colette Peters announced plans to move ahead with the idea, citing budget and space issues, as well as Oregon’s shift away from capital punishment.

The unit that housed death row will be converted into disciplinary housing for prisoners who commit assaults, engage in extortion, gang activity or other illicit conduct behind bars. Last year alone, more than 1,000 inmates cycled through the disciplinary unit, now located in an older building.

The state has not executed anyone since 1996 and 1997 when it put to death two men, Douglas Franklin Wright and Harry Charles Moore who both waived appeals. They were executed by lethal injection. In 2015, Gov. Kate Brown extended the moratorium imposed on the death penalty in 2011 by then-Gov. John Kitzhaber, who said the death penalty isn’t handed down fairly.