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| The Hard Truth About Oregon's Prisons: They Work |
| By wweek.com |
| Published: 03/14/2013 |
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Oregon has one of America’s best prison systems. Gov. John Kitzhaber knows that. After all, he helped build it. When Kitzhaber was governor from 1995 to 2003, he spent hundreds of millions constructing new prisons. He didn’t like spending big money to warehouse society’s problems. A former emergency-room doctor, Kitzhaber prefers low-cost prevention to high-cost treatment, often noting it costs $10,000 a year to educate a child but more than $30,000 to house a prisoner. But when sentencing laws forced his hand, Kitzhaber built a prison system that has become the envy of other states. As Jody Sundt, an assistant professor of criminology at Portland State University, puts it, “Oregon’s correctional system is nationally recognized as a leader.” In a variety of ways, state and federal figures show, Oregon has one of the most effective corrections models anywhere. The system uses prison sparingly, locks up the right people and helps keep them from reoffending. Yet now Kitzhaber is trying to undo that good work. Read More. |
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