NCJ Number
127221
Date Published
1987
Length
64 pages
Annotation
This study analyzed the characteristics and service use of Oregon State correctional clients under supervision of the Marion and Polk counties' community corrections departments, as well as past, existing, and proposed State correctional policy in the context of national changes in the criminal justice system.
Abstract
Of the 162 Oregon Corrections Division clients who came to Marion and Polk counties' corrections departments on long-term temporary leave or parole between May and August 1986, files were examined for 140 sample clients. Overall, offenders supervised in the two counties had slightly more severe criminal characteristics than did all offenders released from Oregon correctional institutions in 1986. A review of clients' files revealed that parole officers arranged for services that were mandated by the Corrections Division or the Oregon Parole Board as a condition of temporary leave or parole. Referrals were also made to a variety of other nonmandated services in the Salem area. The number of persons released has been influenced by the overcrowding problem in State correctional facilities. Recommendations are to increase correctional bedspace, decentralize release and treatment programs for all Oregon offenders, improve community corrections programs statewide, and improve sentencing guidelines and risk-management strategies. 21 tables and appended supplementary data