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: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

OR: Gov. keeps 3 prisons open--says he won't use his power to commute sentences of people convicted of felonies

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Oregon budget cuts: Governor looks to reserve fund to help Corrections Dept. Gov. Ted Kulongoski nixed a budget-cutting plan to close three state prisons because he wasn?t willing to use his power to commute the sentences of hundreds of convicted felons, a spokesman for the governor said Thursday. ?He?s simply not willing to release close to 1,000 inmates,? Rem Nivens said. Instead, Kulongoski plans to ask the Legislative Emergency Board to tap into a reserve fund to cover the $15.3 million cost of keeping the three prisons open for the rest of the 2009-2011 budget cycle, which ends June 30, 2011, Nivens said. Oregon budget cuts: Governor looks to reserve fund to help Corrections Dept. Gov. Ted Kulongoski nixed a budget-cutting plan to close three state prisons because he wasn?t willing to use his power to commute the sentences of hundreds of convicted felons, a spokesman for the governor said Thursday...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 11, 2010 (boomark / email).