Crime Rates

Considerable Common Ground: Collaborating to Create Safety

September 23, 2011
Crime Victims and Survivors want to ensure that what happened to them does not happen to another. We discuss the opposition of Measure 73 and what PSJ brought forth to the legislative session in support of Alternative ways to increase public safety.

Article by Kerry Naughton

ACLU: Reduce Crime by Reducing Prison Sentences

August 25, 2011
A report from the American Civil Liberties Union says several U.S. states have reduced crime – and saved money – by putting fewer people behind bars. (VOA)

ACLU: Reduce Crime by Reducing Prison Sentences

Lawmakers All Locked Up Over Prison Spending

April 25, 2011
"It makes no sense to spend more money sending more nonviolent people to prison," writes the Oregonian Editorial Board (Oregonian).

 

OR Praised for Prisoner Rehabilitation - as Lawmakers Ponder Cutting It

April 21, 2011
Oregon is doing exactly what's right when it comes to offering programs that facilitate prisoner rehabilitation. So why are these very programs facing severe cuts? (Public News Service).

OR Praised for Prisoner Rehabilitation - as Lawmakers Ponder Cutting It

by Chris Thomas

States Help Ex-Inmates Find Jobs

February 1, 2011
Faced with huge budget gaps and high unemployment, several states are addressing both issues with a surprising strategy: helping former prisoners find jobs to keep them from ending up back in prison. (New York Times)

States Help Ex-Inmates Find Jobs

By Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times

Rethinking Public Safety Spending Strategies

December 15, 2010
PSJ's Associate Director Shannon Wight asks: At what point will this country's expensive experiment with mass incarceration end? Her answer: We have reached the tipping point; we must focus on real public safety now and not mass incarceration at any cost.

Article by Shannon Wight 

America’s Children Safer Today than in 1993

November 2, 2010
A new report, "America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being", found that children are much safer from victimization now than in the past.

Each year since 1997, the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics has published America's Children: Key National Indi

Crime Rate in Oregon Drops to Lowest Rate in Four Decades

September 13, 2010
Despite high unemployment, crime rates across Oregon are the lowest they've been in forty years, due largely to an aging population and advanced meth laws. And the state didn't have to build prisons to achieve it (Oregonian).

 

Guest Viewpoint: Groups that aid criminal offenders help keep us all safer

July 12, 2010
Paul Solomon, PSJ's board chairman and Sponsors' asst. executive director, and Ron Chase, Sponsors' executive director, respond to tough-on-crime advocate Josh Marquis' claims that Oregon needs mandatory minimum sentences.

Guest Viewpoint: Groups that aid criminal offenders help keep us all safer

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