Reports and Resources

The report Crime Trends and Incarceration Rates in Oregon reviews crime statistics in states with and without mandatory minimum sentences and shows that similar drops in crime occur in states without mandatory minimum sentences.

The Brennan Center for Justice is a non-partisan law and public policy institute that works on issues of democracy and justice like voting rights and access to the courts through scholarship, legislative and legal advocacy.

The CBKB is a project of the VERA Institute of Justice and Bureau of Justice Statistics with the goal of improving the understanding and use of cost-benefit decision making in criminal justice policy making.

The Drug Policy Alliance is a national organization working to reform drug policy and end the war on drugs.

FAMM is a national organization advocating for sentencing reform at the state and federal levels.

The Justice Policy Institute provides research and promotes effective policy solutions to social problems and works to end society's reliance on incarceration.

Justice Strategies provides national research and advocacy for criminal justice reform.

The Oregon Criminal Justice Commission provides up-to-date research and analysis regarding Oregon's public safety system.

The Sentencing Project is a national organization that advocates for sentencing reform and alternatives to incarceration and publishes a number of useful reports.

The Vera Institute of Justice works on making justice systems fairer and more effective through research and innovation.

The Washington State Institute for Public Policy carries out practical, non-partisan research with a particular focus on criminal justice.

Safety and Sentencing

The High Cost Of Measure 11

"You need only to look to our neighbors to the south to see the toll a runaway prison system takes on a state budget"" (Mail Tribune)

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OR Public Safety Poll: A Lot Has Changed Since 1994

A recent poll shows that Oregonians want to invest more in crime prevention instead of prison growth and that voters support changes in how Oregon treats youth who are in our criminal justice system. (Public News Service)

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Will the Legislature protect women in danger?

Crime survivor advocates in rural Oregon have seen their program budgets slashed while the requests for their services have increased dramatically. They call on the legislature to pass HB 3194 to curb prison growth and reinvest those dollars into local public safety efforts proven to reduce crime.

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Paying for Oregon’s prisons

KOIN interviewed Gov. Kitzhaber about smart changes to our public safety system. “If you want a good return on taxpayer dollars,” he told KOIN 6 News, “you spend it on preventions.”

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Transition programs prevent crime, serve inmates

Paul Solomon, PSJ's Board Chair, supports passage of HB 3194, a comprehensive sentencing and corrections reform package that will remove the need for $600 million in new spending on prison expansion and invest instead in less costly, more effective community programs. (Register Guard)

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