COMMENTARY | Prosecutors, legislators have power to choose how to better spend $10M on women convicted of crime At the end of September, the Emergency Board of the Oregon State Legislature will consider a request from the Department of Corrections for nea ...
18 Aug 2016 - Shannon Wight
Oregon looks to model Washington's Family Offender Sentencing Alternative to allow certain parents to serve sentences in community supervision rather than prison Oregon has recently committed to an exciting new path to improve its public safety syste ...
27 Mar 2015 - Shannon Wight and Elizabeth Hilliard
Oregon faced a public safety crisis in 2013: the state’s prison population had grown at a rapid rate between 2012 and 2013. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, our prison population grew by 3.5 percent – the fifth highest rate in the country an ...
3 Feb 2015 - Shannon Wight