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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2018
Oregon incarcerates youth as adults at high rate
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Oregon incarcerates young
people and transfers them to
adult court at a greater rate
than most other states, accord-
ing to a report released Tues-
day by the Oregon Council on
Civil Rights and the nonprofit
Oregon Justice Resource
Center.
The report found that the
state’s policy of charging
youth as adults under Mea-
sure 11 is “a harsh and costly
practice that stands at odds
with a contemporary under-
standing of brain science.
“While other states have
modernized their approaches,
Oregon has not,” the report
states.
Passed by voters in 1994,
Measure 11 imposed manda-
tory minimum sentences for
certain serious crimes and,
according to the report, helped
to contribute to Oregon’s high
incarceration of youth and a
disproportionate rate of incar-
ceration of black youth —
which is 26 times higher.
Courtney Vaughn/Pamplin Media Group
A Columbia County Jail deputy delivers meals to inmates
at the jail in St. Helens.
Prison can have a lifelong
effect on young offenders’
ability to secure housing and
employment.
“Youth charged under
Measure 11 — even those
who do not receive an adult
sentence — face lifetime
barriers to education and
employment,” said state
Labor Commissioner Brad
Avakian, who appoints mem-
bers to the civil rights coun-
cil. “Oregon’s juvenile justice
system brings high costs and
poor outcomes. We should
modernize our approach to
better prepare young people
to have a meaningful life after
release.”
Although research sug-
gests that the brain is still
developing until a person is
in their 20s, Oregon’s manda-
tory minimum sentences fail
to consider a young person’s
capacity to change, according
to the report.
“Brain science tells us that
for youth, the brain is still
‘under construction,’” said Dr.
Alisha Moreland-Capuia, a
physician, scholar and execu-
tive director of Oregon Health
& Science University’s Avel
Gordly Center for Healing.
“Young people lack the skills
to effectively navigate an adult
criminal justice system that
disrupts the development pro-
cess at a critical stage. Ore-
gon should join the many other
states in recognizing the role
of brain development in crimi-
nal justice reform.”
The 69-page report recom-
mends policy reforms aimed
at a “more effective, fair and
science-informed approach to
youth involvement in the jus-
tice system.” The report was
authored by Roberta Phil-
lip-Robbins, civil rights coun-
cil chairwoman, and Ben Scis-
sors of the Oregon Justice
Resource Center.
Recommendations include:
• Improvements in data
collection and transparency:
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June 18, 1936 — Jan. 28, 2018
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Despite being trapped in a car sitting at a 45-degree angle for several minutes Wednes-
day morning in Astoria, an elderly woman walked away unharmed. The woman, 70, was
attempting to park outside Providence Heart Clinic about 11:30 a.m. for an appointment.
But she accidentally hit the gas pedal instead of the brake of a red Kia Soul as she pulled
into a parking spot, Astoria Police Deputy Chief Eric Halverson said. The car careened
over a retaining wall and came to rest with its back end still above the wall and its front
end on the pavement below. Emergency personnel safely extracted her from the car
minutes later. ‘From my understanding she was a little embarrassed, but she made it to
her appointment and was able to get a cab ride home,’ Halverson said.
Roberta Mae Parks, 81, passed away Jan. tions for Clatsop County Assessment & Tax-
28, 2018, at Avamere Bethany Memory Care ation, mental health clinic, and city of Asto-
ria utilities. After retirement, she worked for
in Portland, Oregon.
She was born on June 18, 1936, in Kalis- Compleat Photographer. She enjoyed music,
pell, Montana, to John Edward
gardening and photography. While
Stahl and Ida Mae (Boyd) Stahl. As
she was at Avamere, she enjoyed
visits with her family and friends.
a small child, the family moved to
She was preceded in death by
their dairy farm in Cut Bank, Mon-
tana, where Roberta enjoyed farm
her husband, Glen; her parents,
life with her horse, Jo.
John and Ida Stahl; a brother, Robert
At age 12. the family moved to
Stahl; a sister, Mary Lee Brunick;
Payette, Idaho, for a year, where the
and two nephews, Joseph Stahl and
Edwin Willis.
family heard the gospel. Her faith
Survivors include a daugh-
was utmost in her life.
ter, Rachel Olson (Ken) of Rocky-
In 1949 a final move was made to
Hillsboro, Oregon, where Roberta Roberta Parks ford, Alberta, Canada; a son, Mal-
colm Parks (Yvonne) of Soap Lake,
graduated from Hilhi in 1954. She
Washington; sisters Jackie Wil-
held various secretarial positions in
the area until 1958, when she returned to Mon- lis (Robert) of Tillamook and Jill McDonald
tana as a missionary. She returned to Oregon (Lyle) of Hillsboro; grandsons Paul and Mat-
in 1959, and worked for Bonneville Power thew Olson of Alberta and Brandon Parks of
Administration until she was united in mar- Tigard, Oregon; granddaughters Ashlee Parks
riage to Glen William Parks on July 29, 1961. and Brandy Parks; great-grandson Ethan
The couple celebrated 55 years of marriage Parks; and 14 nieces and nephews.
Memorial services will be held Satur-
prior to his passing away of heart failure in
2016. They made their home in Astoria, later day, Feb. 3, 2018, at 3 p.m. at Caldwell’s
retiring and moving to Aldercreek Village in Luce-Layton Mortuary, 1165 Franklin Ave. in
Warrenton, Oregon. A daughter, Rachel, was Astoria, Oregon.
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born in 1963 and a son, Malcolm, in 1965.
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Major salmon producer fined for farmed fish escape
SEATTLE — The largest
U.S. producer of farmed Atlan-
tic salmon was fined $332,000
for alleged violations of Wash-
ington state water quality laws
after hundreds of thousands of
invasive Atlantic salmon were
released last year into waters
famed for their native salmon,
state officials said.
Cooke Aquaculture Pacific
failed to adequately clean
nets holding farmed salmon,
leading to a net pen failure
last summer that allowed the
fish to swim away into Puget
Sound, officials said in a report
compiled by the state’s depart-
ments of fish and wildlife,
ecology and natural resources.
The nets failed because
they were excessively laden
with mussels and other marine
organisms, the report said.
That increased the drag on the
nets from tidal currents and
overwhelmed their mooring
system, the report said.
More than 110 tons of mus-
sels, clams and other material
had accumulated on the nets,
state Public Lands Commis-
sioner Hilary Franz told report-
ers Tuesday. “Cooke’s disregard
caused this disaster and reck-
lessly put our state’s aquatic
ecosystem at risk,” she said.
“Cooke knew they had
a problem and they didn’t
appropriately respond to deal
with the problem,” said state
Ecology Director Maria Bel-
lon. The company “could have
and should have prevented this
incident,” she added.
care, cultural responsivity and
brain development.
Leaders from the Oregon
District Attorneys Associa-
tion, who have resisted other
attempts to weaken Measure
11, were not immediately
available Tuesday to comment
on recommendations from the
report.
The report also found that
black youth are more than 26
times more likely to be incar-
cerated in Oregon compared
with whites.
The state spends as much
as nearly $100,000 a year to
incarcerate one young Mea-
sure 11 offender, the report
found.
“Oregon can do more to
improve public safety out-
comes while giving young
people a chance to thrive,”
Phillip-Robbins said. “ … we
hope to be a force to adjust our
misguided approach to youth
and Measure 11. It’s clear that
we can make better use of tax-
payer resources while improv-
ing public safety and reduc-
ing recidivism in communities
around the state.”
Roberta Parks
Heart stopping
By PHUONG LE
Associated Press
Making prosecution data, such
as demographic data of youth
referred to prosecutors’ offices,
publicly available supports
evidence-based policymaking.
• Youth charged under Mea-
sure 11 should not be automat-
ically moved to adult court: A
judge should weigh the facts
of each case before removing
a young person from the juve-
nile system.
• Give youth a “sec-
ond-look” hearing: Every
young person should have the
chance to grow and change
during detention. After serv-
ing half of a sentence, youth
should be entitled to a sec-
ond-look hearing, a review of
the offender’s progress and
rehabilitation.
• Address root causes: Ore-
gon should boost investment
in anti-poverty safety net pro-
grams that promote family
stability and decrease future
involvement with the criminal
justice system. Along with pre-
ventative measures, employ-
ees throughout the crimi-
nal justice system should be
trained in trauma-informed
State officials also accused
the company of underreport-
ing how many fish escaped
into Puget Sound on Aug. 19
and over reporting how many
fish were captured.
Ahead of the report’s release,
Cooke on Tuesday dismissed
the state’s investigation as
incomplete and inaccurate. The
company said Cooke employees
under state supervision counted
each fish as it was recovered.
Company vice president
Joel Richardson said in a state-
ment that Cooke was shut out of
the investigative process, lead-
ing to “an inaccurate and mis-
leading document,” referring to
the report by state officials.
He said Cooke acknowl-
edges that the facility fell
behind in cleaning the nets
before moorings failed in July
of 2017. But he said the com-
pany provided records show-
ing it had washed the nets at
the site after that July incident
and before the Aug. 19 event.
The company also com-
plained that the state agen-
cies gave it only several days
to provide feedback on the
lengthy report.
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