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| Closing Santiam Correctional Facility a bad idea |
| By oregoncatalyst.com |
| Published: 02/15/2012 |
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The published budget rebalance plan for the February session of the Oregon legislature has a one-line statement saying: “DOC – Closure of one small facility; no prisoner release.” “DOC” means Department of Corrections, and this sounds like no big deal, until one finds out that the “small” facility is the Santiam Correctional Institution which houses over 400 inmates. Furthermore, these prisoners will be sent to other facilities, and many of them will be housed in “temporary beds” and/or “emergency beds.” Simply put, this is code for crowding these inmates into other prisons not designed to handle the increased number of inmates that will be in them. Legislators are currently working on the budget, and this “rebalance” plan is not final, although it was put together by the co-chairs of the powerful Ways and Means Committee. CROWDING PRISONS LEADS TO BAD RESULTS While closing the Santiam Correctional facility won’t make us the State of California that has huge correctional crowding problems, complete with Federal Court intervention to reduce crowding, it moves us closer to this undesirable situation. Here are some of the immediate problems that closing the Santiam Correctional facility will cause. Read More. |
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