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OR: Bill introduced to count prisoners as part of their home communities

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Statesman Journal 2009 Legislature Bill would change way inmates are counted March 17, 2009 Marion County's population would shrink for purposes of redrawing state legislative and federal congressional districts under a bill that the House Rules Committee took up Monday. House Bill 2930 would require inmates to be counted as part of the communities they came from before they ended up in state prison. Under current practice, they are considered residents of the counties where they are imprisoned. The Salem area has four of Oregon's 14 prisons and work camps, housing just less than 4,000 of the 13,750 inmates systemwide. A 20-year-old law requires inmates to return to their home counties once they are released from prison. Rep. Chip Shields, D-Portland, the bill's chief sponsor, said his proposalis consistent with that law...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 17, 2009 (boomark / email).