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OR: Measure 57 goes into effect

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Mannix-sponsored anti-crime measure won't go into effect Posted by The Oregonian November 04, 2008 21:28PM Voters were narrowly approving Measure 61, an anti-crime initiative, but it won't go into effect because a competing measure received more votes. Measure 61 would have set three-year mandatory minimum prison sentences for first-time drug dealers, burglars and identity thieves. It would have sent an estimated 6,000 non-violent offenders to prison -- a 44 percent increase in the state's prison population -- and cost an estimated $797 million over the next five years. It also would have required the state to borrow as much as $1.3 billion for prison construction. Measure 61 was sponsored by former Republican lawmaker Kevin Mannix. Measure57, a competing anti-crime proposal, received more votes so only it will go into effect...continue to full post

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