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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2018
A regional jail has
released inmates to save
space for ICE detainees
Hate crimes on the rise in Oregon
Critics have
sued the jail
Every year, the FBI releases
national hate crime statistics.
According to that data, hate
crimes in Oregon are up by 40
percent from 2016 to 2017.
But there are limits to the
data.
Of the 214 Oregon agen-
cies that participate in the
FBI’s hate crime tracking pro-
gram, just 29 agencies submit-
ted incident reports for 2017.
And it’s widely understood
that hate crimes go underre-
ported nationwide. Oregon is
no exception.
“The data is grossly incom-
plete and inaccurate,” said
Arjun Singh Sethi, a law pro-
fessor at Vanderbilt University
and editor of American Hate:
Survivors Speak Out, a book
Crimes up by
40 percent
By ERICKA CRUZ
GUEVARRA
Oregon Public Broadcasting
By CONRAD WILSON
Oregon Public
Broadcasting
A regional jail in The
Dalles that houses detain-
ees for U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement has
suggested local sheriffs keep
their “numbers low” in the
jail to make room for immi-
grant detainees.
The Northern Oregon
Regional Corrections Facil-
ity — or NORCOR — has
housed immigration detain-
ees since 1999, when the
facility first opened. Critics
of that process say it violates
Oregon’s sanctuary law and
have sued the jail.
Documents included in
that lawsuit give potential
insight into how NORCOR
allocates space for ICE
detainees.
In a Sept. 29, 2016 email,
then-NORCOR Lt. Dan
Lindhorst wrote ICE to ask
that they increase their num-
ber of detainees at the jail.
“I see this morning we are
down to 26 ICE detainees,”
Lindhorst wrote. “Could you
please see if you can get these
numbers up. We have been
keeping the county numbers
low to make room for the 40
detainees that you had asked
for. If you are not going to
use us to that extent, please
let me know that as well so I
can advise my sheriffs.”
Less than three hours
later, an ICE official wrote
back indicating detainees
would soon arrive from the
Northwest Detention Center
in Tacoma, Washington.
“Tacoma is working on
vetting more detainees to go
to NORCOR,” ICE official
Larry Peterson wrote. “I will
let you know when they are
ready for transfer.”
“Thanks, I have been get-
ting pressed for people,”
Lindhorst wrote back.
Conrad Wilson/Oregon Public Broadcasting
Two ICE detainees sit on top of a metal table watching
television at a regional jail in The Dalles in 2017.
“No problem,” Peterson
wrote. “I will keep hounding
them for more.”
Lindhorst has since been
promoted to NORCOR’s
commander. He declined to
comment Thursday, citing
the pending litigation.
NORCOR is the regional
jail for Hood River, Gilliam,
Sherman and Wasco coun-
ties. It also contracts with
Benton County to house
inmates.
But in recent years, the
jail has become particu-
larly reliant on funding
from its increasingly lucra-
tive contract with ICE. Last
year, the federal agency
paid NORCOR more than
$900,000 to house detainees,
according to the jail’s budget
documents. That’s more than
11 percent of the jail’s 2017–
18 budget.
The county’s contract
with ICE doesn’t guaran-
tee how much the federal
agency will use NORCOR.
But in 2016, then-jail admin-
istrator Bryan Brandenburg
told Oregon Public Broad-
casting that ICE does “their
best to keep our numbers up
a little bit.”
In 2016, Wasco County
failed to continue a property
tax levy to fund the jail, mak-
ing the jail even more reliant
on its contract with ICE.
“Huge,” Gilliam County
Sheriff Gary Bettencourt
said when describing the
problem if the jail’s ICE con-
tract went away. “It would be
a huge problem.”
Bettencourt said the jail
uses a matrix system when
the inmate population starts
to reach capacity. He said
there’s a “very low number
of people we matrix.”
Historically, the jail’s
population has been slightly
more than 200 adult inmates
and detainees.
“If we get over that, we
initiate the matrix system
that just starts pushing peo-
ple out the door,” Betten-
court said. “It’s kind of a
grading system; somebody
who’s not a threat to the
community or themselves,
so it’s got to be a pretty low-
level crime.”
He said an inmate’s crim-
inal history is also taken into
consideration before that per-
son is let out to make room
for more serious offenders.
“We think our local bed
numbers are adequate,” Bet-
tencourt said.
He said there’s never been
a time when the ICE con-
tract has prevented someone
arrested locally from getting
booked into the jail.
“We’re never not able to
take a local person,” he said.
The sheriffs of Hood
River, Sherman and Wasco
counties did not immediately
return requests for comment.
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CANNON BEACH —
Ecola Seafood Restaurant
and Market will have a grand
reopening on Nov. 30 after an
electrical fire closed its doors
in July.
The market, a family-owned
and -operated business in Can-
non Beach for 25 years, was
forced to close for four months
for renovations due to severe
smoke damage.
After missing most of the
peak tourism season, the family
is hoping to welcome back cus-
tomers just in time for Thanks-
giving with a soft opening is
scheduled for Wednesday.
The grand reopening will
be held 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on
Nov. 30 and feature food and
free giveaways.
Charlotte Mae Patching
Astoria
Nov. 3, 1927 — Nov. 13, 2018
Charlotte Patching was born to Willis and she would play “Jesus Loves Me” and “You
Myrtle Deal in Longview, Washington, on Nov. Are My Sunshine.” Charlotte and her piano
3, 1927. Charlotte married Duane Patching on provided so many hours of entertainment. The
July 17, 1946, and they enjoyed 60 wonderful only forbidden song was “Grandma Got Run
Over by a Reindeer”!
years together.
While attending Rainier High
Charlotte was an active mem-
ber of the First United Method-
School, Charlotte worked as a tele-
ist Church, loved baking, enjoyed
phone operator and stapler in a box
car rides, spent hours tending flow-
assembly plant. She graduated from
ers and cherished her friendships in
high school in 1945, and moved
to Astoria in 1959, after purchas-
Alpha Iota Sorority.
ing Miles Grocery. Charlotte later
Music was Charlotte’s life-
long passion. It’s the way she con-
worked for Teamsters Local 569/58,
nected with people. Whether she
and retired in 1984.
Charlotte went peacefully to her
was playing piano with an ensem-
Charlotte
ble in church, accompanying a nurs-
heavenly home on Nov. 13, 2018.
Patching
ing home service, leading Christmas
She was preceded in death by her
carols at her annual Cookie and Car-
husband, Duane, her parents, two
oling party, or playing polkas on the accordion brothers and two sisters. She is survived by
beside a campfire, Charlotte’s music always daughter, Diane (Walt) Curs; son, James (Jan)
brightened the mood.
Patching; daughter, Dorothy Leonhardt (Paul
Her natural talent was amazing, and her Winiarz); grandchildren, Dean Fisher, Tami
greatest fan was her husband. She played by (Collin) Stelzig, Amy (Jeremy) Bubar, Andrew
ear and read music. You could call out any song (Rebecca) Patching and Kari (Derek) Smith;
— hymn, oldie, country, patriotic — and Char- and 10 great-grandchildren.
lotte would play it. If it was pitched too high or
Remembrances may be made to the First
low, she’d transpose it and encourage everyone United Methodist Church, Astoria, or the Shri-
to sing along. Her talents and personality at the ners Hospital for Children.
Please join in Charlotte’s celebration of life
piano were unparalleled.
Her overwhelming shyness melted away at First United Methodist Church on Sunday,
when she sat at a piano, and she loved to have Nov. 18, at 2 p.m.
Caldwell’s Luce-Layton Mortuary is in
friends and family around her while she played.
Towards the end of her earthly life, she would charge of the arrangements. Please sign our
ask caregivers to wheel her to the spinet where guest book at caldwellsmortuary.com
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had zero documented murder
or non-negligent manslaughter
hate crimes in 2017.
Kai Wiggins, a policy ana-
lyst with the Arab Ameri-
can Institute in Washington,
D.C., said that’s despite the
high-profile murders of two
people on a Portland MAX
train last summer.
The alleged assailant, Jer-
emy Christian, faces aggra-
vated murder charges for kill-
ing two and stabbing a third.
But the Portland Police
Bureau, which submitted 18
known hate crimes to the FBI
in 2017, said it believes the
hate crime charges against
the MAX train assailant are
for the intimidation of the
two girls who were allegedly
berated with racial slurs on the
train. One of them was wear-
ing a hijab.
Christian faces just two
counts of intimidation for his
actions toward the two young
women. Those are hate crime
charges in the state of Oregon.
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that includes interviews with
the two young women at the
center of the fatal MAX train
stabbing in Portland last year.
“And that’s because the
FBI data relies on voluntary
reporting by local police. It’s
not mandatory,” he said.
The data shows 146 hate
crimes reported in 2017, com-
pared to 104 in 2016.
A majority of jurisdictions
in Oregon reported zero hate
crimes to the FBI.
Among them was Clack-
amas County, where at least
two known hate crimes were
prosecuted last year, accord-
ing to the Clackamas County
District Attorney’s office.
Political advocacy groups
that work with politically
underrepresented communi-
ties were quick to dismiss the
data as at least partially illegit-
imate because of such omis-
sions — and disagreement
with law enforcement over
how hate crimes are classified.
FBI data shows Oregon
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