Search results | Street Roots

Results

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
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
Next steps on downtown homelessness in Portland

The past two weeks have been chock full of tragic events, bad press and anxiety on the streets, specifically downtown. A group of kids, presumably homeless, attacked a 70-year old employee of the Portland Outdoor Store downtown. He was hospitalized after ...

21 Jul 2013 - Israel Bayer
Do prisons make us safer? The numbers suggest not

While other states reduce incarceration and crime, Oregon is on track to spend $600M on new prison space By Denise Welch and Sonny Lerma, Contributing Columnists This year, Oregon’s Legislature will examine whether to pass reforms that reduce our reliance ...

26 Mar 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Lawmakers have opportunity to flatline prison growth

By David Rogers, Contributing Columnist On Nov. 30, Gov. John Kitzhaber released his proposed budget for 2013-15. The budget included no money for prison expansion — despite the fact that the state projects it will need more than 2,000 new prison beds at ...

23 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff