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| OR Juvenile System To Feel Budget Most |
| By statesmanjournal.com |
| Published: 02/02/2011 |
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The budget unveiled Tuesday by Gov. John Kitzhaber calls for deep cuts in the Oregon Youth Authority, including scrapping 425 of the agency's 900 close-custody beds for juvenile offenders and cutting 305 jobs. In contrast, Kitzhaber's proposed budget maintains Department of Corrections funding to keep all 13 adult prisons operating through the 2011-13 budget period. Even so, Kitzhaber emphasized that the state can't afford rising costs connected to the 14,000-inmate corrections system. The governor called the prison system "a black hole" that sucks money away from early childhood and education programs designed to help steer young people away from crime. Read More. |
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