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OR: Lottery money proposed as use for more cages for peole convicted of first time offences

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Mannix's proposed initiative does not come with funding attached, though he has sponsored a different initiative to earmark 15 percent of lottery proceeds for public safety, on top of other voter-approved earmarks for an education reserve fund and parks and watersheds. No specific source of money is identified for the lesser alternative, but the pending bill would tie in drug treatment programs with the increased penalties. "If you enhance sanctions and provide treatment beds, then the governor believes you will see a change in people who are cycling through the system and repeating (crime) at a higher rate," said Joseph O'Leary, Gov. Ted Kulongoski's senior adviser on public safety." Statesman Journal Initiative to increase prison terms Alternative, more cost-effective bill also considered PETER WONG Statesman Journal February 8, 2008 A alternative measure to increase prison time for some property and drug crimes may pass this session of the Oregon Legislature, although the measure does not go as far as the minimum sentences for first-time offenders that are proposed by former legislator Kevin Mannix of Salem...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 09, 2008 (boomark / email).