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| Earned Time: Mend It. Don't End It. |
| By blueoregon.com |
| Published: 02/04/2010 |
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The Oregonian weighed in on the 10 percent increase in earned time eligibility passed by the Oregon Legislature in 2009. That increase in eligibility was part of HB 3508-B . The easy out for the Legislature is to abandon its effort to save a few million tax dollars a year by increasing earned time for nonviolent offenders in Oregon's prison system. After all, apparently there's enough money in the corrections budget to get through this biennium even if lawmakers reverse course on the law they passed increasing earned time for nonviolent offenders from 20 percent to 30 percent of prison sentences. But if legislators retreat from this modest prison cost savings measure now, they will all but surrender on the larger question of whether Oregon ever will be able to find savings in corrections policies, even as the state faces a structural deficit in 2011-13 that could force sweeping cuts in education and other services. Read More. |
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