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Prisons prepare for more inmates
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
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SALEM — Despite a $55 million
investment in programs to reduce the
prison population, the Department
of Corrections is poised to spend $4
million before fall to add beds at two
minimum-security institutions.
The legislative Emergency Board
approved the additional allocation to
the Department of Corrections May
25.
The money will pay for additional
staff and security equipment at Deer
Ridge Correctional Institution in
Madras and prepare the mothballed
Oregon State Penitentiary-Min-
imum in Salem to accept female
inmates.
The department already received
$2.5 million in February to move
787 male inmates from a mini-
mum-security facility to a larger
vacant medium-security building
at Deer Ridge, where there is room
to add more beds. Another $3
million approved last month will
pay security equipment to complete
the move and add 200 beds to the
prison. The Emergency Board also
approved 33 additional positions at
the prison to serve the additional
anticipated inmates.
Another $1 million was approved
to pay for the process of reopening
the Oregon State Penitentiary-Min-
imum in Salem — an annex of the
Oregon State Penitentiary, which
was shuttered in 2010 to save money
during the recession. Opening the
annex will relieve pressure from
the state’s only women’s prison,
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility
in Wilsonville.
The threshold number of inmates
that can safely be housed at Coffee
Creek is 1,280, said Colette Peters,
director of the Department of
Corrections. The facility is currently
Brown:
New tax
should go
to high
schools
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legality of bringing drug-sniffi ng dogs
to an apartment inspection. Neither
the property manager nor the building
owner, they said, would have the legal
right to let police search apartments
where people currently lived. The
decision on whether or not to allow the
dogs would be up to the tenant.
And while renters can consent to
allow police searches, Roberts said
they also can take away that consent at
any moment during the search.
“And we have to comply with
that,” he said.
Obtaining a search warrant through
the courts is the surest way to conduct
a legal search, he said.
PORTLAND — With
the largest corporate tax
hike in Oregon history
likely headed to voters in
November, lawmakers have
two different scenarios to
consider
for
the
n e x t
two-year
budget
cycle:
one with
an extra
$6 billion
in
tax
r e v e n u e , Brown
and one
without.
That reality prompted
Gov. Kate Brown on
Thursday to release her
own vision for some of that
revenue if Initiative Petition
28 passes this fall.
It involves creating an
endowment fund for high
school vocational programs
in hopes of boosting grad-
uation rates; expanding
earned income tax credits for
low-income households; and
establishing tax credits for
corporations that dedicate
a portion of their tax bill to
the Oregon Growth Fund
for small and minority busi-
nesses.
Cost estimates weren’t
immediately available as
discussions with lawmakers,
who will ultimately decide
the plan’s fate, were just
beginning. But offi cials in
Brown’s offi ce say it’s a
framework to start with, an
effort to lock away at least
some of what’d otherwise be
discretionary money for the
Oregon Legislature.
“The time to build the
boat is before the tide rises,”
Brown, who remains neutral
on IP 28, said in a statement.
“As I consider the develop-
ment of budgets and policies
for 2017-19, my Corporate
Tax Implementation Plan
provides a framework for
planning that advances
my priorities: improve our
high school graduation rate,
continue economic growth
statewide and protect Oregon
jobs.”
The measure — a gross
receipts tax hike proposal
that would apply to busi-
nesses with $25 million-
plus in annual sales and is
awaiting fi nal approval for
the November ballot —
specifi es that all revenue
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endorses
Trump
Old iron in the park
By STEVE PEOPLES
and SCOTT BAUER
Associated Press
JANESVILLE,
Wis.
— House Speaker Paul
Ryan endorsed Donald
Trump’s bid for president on
Thursday, bringing an end
to the extraordinary public
split between the GOP’s
presumptive White House
nominee and the nation’s top
Republican in offi ce.
“I had friends wishing I
wouldn’t support him. I had
friends wishing I would,”
Ryan said in an exclusive
interview with The Associ-
ated Press. “I really didn’t
feel any pressure, other than
my goal is to make sure that
were unifi ed so that we’re at
full strength in the fall so we
can win the election.”
Ryan’s
announcement,
made in a newspaper column
published in his Wisconsin
hometown, marks a signif-
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John Olsen of Pendleton works on tightening a drive chain on a 1950s era John Deere corn sheller for
owner Gary Hugill of Pendleton, not photographed, while setting up for the 13th Annual Old Iron Show at
Roy Raley Park in Pendleton. The Old Iron Show is sponsored by the Heritage Station Museum and runs
from Friday through Sunday. See Coming Events, Page 6A, for details.
PENDLETON
Apartment inspection warning
may carry more bark than bite
Signs posted on doors
warn of police dogs
doing drug inspections
By PHIL WRIGHT
East Oregonian
The manager of a Pendleton apart-
ment complex may have stepped over
a legal line when she notifi ed tenants
she would bring in police dogs for
inspections.
The East Oregonian obtained a
copy of the notice property manager
Marta Poulson taped to doors at
Security Apartments, 130 S.W. Court
Ave., Pendleton, on May 27. Most of
the notice reminds tenants to adhere to
lease agreements, including limiting
how long guests can stay and to not
have drugs, even marijuana, in the
apartments. And then comes this:
“I have scheduled for Umatilla
County Sheriff’s Department to bring
police dogs to help with our next
inspection. I will post a 24 hour notice
prior to the inspection.”
Umatilla County Sheriff Terry
Rowan said no one has scheduled this
kind of search with his offi ce and could
not if they wanted to — the sheriff’s
offi ce has not had a K9 unit for two
years. He also said the sheriff’s offi ce
does not have agreements with apart-
ment managers and property owners
to conduct such searches. And in this
case, the Pendleton Police Department
would have jurisdiction because the
site is inside city limits.
Pendleton Police Chief Stuart
Roberts also said his department does
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Notices informing residents police dogs would be used during an
upcoming inspection were recently taped to tenant’s doors at the
Security Apartments in Pendleton.
not have agreements to bring the K9
unit to property inspections, though
Pendleton police do receive those
requests. Roberts said he and the
police dog’s handler review those on a
case-by-case basis.
They have done a few searches of
vacant apartments and houses, he said,
to clear them of any drugs, syringes
and other paraphernalia to help owners
or managers make sure properties are
safe.
“Even if we fi nd something in
that case, we can’t use it to further a
criminal investigation,” Roberts said,
so police dispose of it through incin-
eration.
Rowan and Roberts in separate
interviews said the real issue here is the