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| State board OKs $4 million for more prison beds |
| By portlandtribune.com- Paris Achen |
| Published: 06/03/2016 |
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SALEM — Despite a $55 million investment in programs to reduce the prison population, Oregon's Department of Corrections is poised to spend $4 million before fall to add beds at two minimum-security institutions. The legislative Emergency Board approved the additional allocation to the Department of Corrections May 25. The money will pay for additional staff and security equipment at Deer Ridge Correctional Institution in Madras and prepare the mothballed Oregon State Penitentiary-Minimum in Salem to accept female inmates. The department already received $2.5 million in February to move 787 male inmates from a minimum-security facility to a larger vacant medium-security building at Deer Ridge, where there is room to add more beds. Another $3 million approved last month will pay security equipment to complete the move and add 200 beds to the prison. The Emergency Board also approved 33 additional positions at the prison to serve the additional anticipated inmates. Another $1 million was approved to pay for the process of reopening the Oregon State Penitentiary-Minimum in Salem — an annex of the Oregon State Penitentiary, which was mothballed in 2010 to save money during the recession. Opening the annex will relieve pressure from the state’s only women’s prison, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville. Read More. |
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