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Puppy problems produced by prison populations

By Douglas A. Berman

This local dispatch reporting on the prison economy in Oregon, which is headlined "Ore. Lawmakers: State can't afford tougher penalties for animal abuse," prompted me to produce the alliterative title to this post.  Here are the particulars: A bill currently making it's way through the Oregon legislature would create stiffer penalties for several types of criminals.  However, Animal abusers are not among them. The Criminal Justice Commission dropped felony and aggravated animal abuse changes from the bill after lawmakers said Wednesday the state cannot afford to put more people in prison. The news comes on the heels of a case in which a Talent man plead guilty in Jackson County Circuit Court Wednesday to suffocating a litter of five 8-week-old mixed-breed puppies in plastic bags last month...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 19, 2009 (boomark / email).