oregon prison forecast anticipates declining women s prison population /

A new prison population forecast from Oregon’s Office of Economic Analysis shows that the number of women inmates in Oregon is set to decline by 8% in the next decade. They attribute it primarily to a new law designed to help Oregon avoid opening a moment women’s prison. We hear more approximately the Oregon Safety and Savings Act - passed in the final legislative session as HB 3078 - from the Partnership for Safety and Justice, which helped create the bill.

Source: thetakeaway.org