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| Department budget finalized |
| By Statesman Journal |
| Published: 06/12/2007 |
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SALEM, OR - The budget of the Department of Corrections, the fourth-largest state agency, won final legislative approval Monday. The House approved the budget on a 55-3 vote, after it had been delayed for a week, and sent it to Gov. Ted Kulongoski. The two-year budget is a record $1.3 billion, virtually all of it coming from the tax-supported general fund. The agency houses 13,500 inmates and helps oversee 35,500 on community supervision. Each of those groups is projected to grow by about 600 by July 2009. There are 13 state prisons. A new prison will open in September east of Madras. It will have 1,240 medium-security beds and 212 beds for intensive-treatment programs. Planning is under way for another prison in Junction City, targeted for opening in 2012. |
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