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| Oregon Lawmakers Propose Alternative To Prison For Offenders Raising Children |
| By opb.org- Amelia Templeton |
| Published: 04/09/2015 |
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Before he was elected to the Oregon statehouse, Rep. Andy Olson, R-Albany, spent 29 years as an officer and lieutenant with the Oregon State Police. During those years, particularly during his time in Klamath Falls and Cottage Grove, he says, Olson saw children affected when their parents were arrested for criminal offenses. “You wished we could have had a track in place to have helped and kept families together. There’s consequences with committing crimes, but you have to ask yourself is there some means we can break the cycle?” he says. Olson is now the Republican co-sponsor of a House bill that creates a separate track for offenders who are parents with custody of their children. Read More. |
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