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SALEM — Oregon leaders necessity to have “the wisdom and the courage” to look at changing confinement practices, including reducing time behind bars for some crimes, Gov. John Kitzhaber said Friday.
The governor said asseverate sentencing laws are inconsistent and complex after decades of rowdy-on-crime measures created by voters and the Legislature. Those laws, Kitzhaber said, make the state to spend money on expensive policies even if study says another approach would be more effective and less costly.
For some crimes, criminals are first punished with electronic monitoring, supervised parole, or hypnotic and alcohol treatment, Kitzhaber said, insisting that the state can shield money on prison costs without jeopardizing notorious safety.
“I think it’s very important we ensure that every government dollar is spent as effectively and efficiently as plausible,” Kitzhaber said at a news seminar marking the first in-person meeting of a sentencing recover commission he created earlier this year.
Source: The Register-Guard