NCJ Number
164807
Journal
Corrections Today Volume: 58 Issue: 7 Dated: (December 1996) Pages: 96-97
Date Published
1996
Length
2 pages
Annotation
This article describes the provisions and impact of Oregon's S.B. 1145, which provides appropriate sanctions within the context of greater local control of community corrections.
Abstract
Counties, in partnership with the Department of Corrections, assume responsibility for felons on parole; on probation; on post-prison supervision; sentenced on or after January 1, 1997, to 12 months or less; and sanctioned on or after January 1, 1997, by a court or the State board of parole and post-prison supervision to 12 months or less for violating a condition of parole or post-prison supervision. Thus, defendants sentenced to 12 months or less stay with the county; those sentenced to more than 12 months go to the State prison system. Under S.B. 1145, counties may impose sanctions other than incarceration; however, if a county does so, it must notify the sentencing court and district attorney that it plans to impose a sanction other than incarceration, and either one may object. If either does, then the sentencing court may direct that the offender be incarcerated. County community corrections programs are closer to the community than State programs. This provision should allow counties to design a treatment program for inmates that enables the county to work the inmate back into the community gradually. The legislature should consider creating a juvenile equivalent of S.B. 1145. Juvenile offenders, particularly those at risk of becoming more serious offenders, are even more in need of community-based treatment and even more amenable to this kind of treatment. 2 references