Safety and Sentencing
Our Safety and Sentencing program works to develop approaches to public safety that help foster safe communities, are fiscally responsible, and reduce our reliance on prisons. The program promotes safe and sensible sentencing reform (such as reform of mandatory minimum sentencing laws), alternatives to incarceration, and diversion programs.
Media Coverage about Corrections Spending Heats Up
June 26, 2009 - 3:12pm Press coverage about Oregon’s out of control corrections spending has heated up greatly in the past few days. We want to keep you in the loop by alerting you to several important pieces of media coverage.
Major Public Safety Policy Package Passes House and Senate
June 26, 2009 - 10:36amA Significant Step toward a Smarter Criminal Justice System
PSJ has played an active role in this legislative session working with legislators and public safety stakeholders to identify policy reforms that maintain and even strengthen public safety while saving money in the process. Many of the policy reforms that PSJ advocates for are included in HB 3508, a landmark omnibus public safety bill that just passed the House and the Senate.
Second Look, the 2009 Legislative Session & Beyond
June 24, 2009 - 8:23am During the 2009 legislative session Partnership for Safety and Justice prioritized Second Look for youth. Second Look was drafted in Senate Bill 682 and received a hearing in the judiciary committee but was not moved to a vote.
Delay of Measure 57 Could Protect Youth from Transfer to Adult Prison
June 24, 2009 - 8:19am House Bill 3508 includes a number of cost-saving public safety measures that could prevent youth from being transferred to adult prisons. Without those savings, proposed cuts to the Oregon Youth Authority budget could force the transfer of youth to adult prison.
Youth in Adult Prisons and Jails are at Greatest Risk for Sexual Assault
June 23, 2009 - 1:35pm The National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) reported on its investigation of the status of youth in adult jails and prisons as part of a nationwide examination of sexual assault in the juvenile and criminal justice systems. The commission’s report concluded that youth (under 18) incarcerated with adults are at highest risk for sexual abuse by other inmates.
