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  1. Partnership for Safety and Justice: A long, strange (and successful) session

    Partnership for Safety and Justice and our allies made important legislative progress in the area of smarter public safety Each legislative session has its own unique feel, but few people at the Capitol could have anticipated the roller-coaster ride of Or ...

    6 Aug 2015 - Shannon Wight

  2. Stronger families make safer communities

    Oregon looks to model Washington's Family Offender Sentencing Alternative to allow certain parents to serve sentences in community supervision rather than prison Oregon has recently committed to an exciting new path to improve its public safety syste ...

    27 Mar 2015 - Shannon Wight and Elizabeth Hilliard

  3. Public safety that makes sense, costs less, rebuilds lives

    Oregon faced a public safety crisis in 2013: the state’s prison population had grown at a rapid rate between 2012 and 2013. According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, our prison population grew by 3.5 percent – the fifth highest rate in the country an ...

    3 Feb 2015 - Shannon Wight

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