NCJ Number
18702
Date Published
1970
Length
64 pages
Annotation
A SURVEY OF JAIL BOOKINGS AND COURT DATA FOR THE JUSTICE, DISTRICT, CIRCUIT AND JUVENILE COURTS AND THE SHERMAN COUNTIES, OREGON, FOR 1969.
Abstract
DATA WERE COLLECTED ON THE NUMBERS OF OFFENDERS KNOWN TO DIFFERENT POLICE AGENCIES IN THIS REGION AND PROCESSED THROUGH THE DIFFERENT COURTS IN REGION 9. THIS REPORT PRESENTS STATISTICS ON THE POPULATION AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF REGION 9, AS WELL AS A NUMBER OF STATISTICS ON POLICE AND COURT HANDLING OF OFFENDERS. ADDITIONALLY, SURVEYS WERE UNDERTAKEN OF THE JAILS IN THIS REGION AND THE RESULTS OF THESE SURVEYS ARE PRESENTED HERE. THEN TOO, DETAILED DATA WERE COLLECTED ON THE JAIL POPULATIONS DURING 1969 IN THESE JAILS, WITH SOME OF THAT MATERIAL APPEARING IN THIS REPORT. FINALLY, A NUMBER OF INTERVIEWS WERE CONDUCTED WITH PRISONERS IN SEVERAL JAILS. THESE VIGNETTES ARE PRESENTED HERE, SO THAT THEY PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL FACTUAL INFORMATION UPON WHICH CORRECTIONAL PLANNING IN REGION 9 MIGHT BE UNDERTAKEN. THE PRESENT REPORT IS DESIGNED AS A FACTUAL DOCUMENT ON WHICH COOPERATIVE PLANNING FOR CORRECTIONAL CHANGE, INVOLVING STATE AND LOCAL CORRECTIONAL PERSONS, CAN BE UNDERTAKEN. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT)