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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Thursday, October 27, 2016 Lawmakers hope to avoid second women’s prison The 2013 law also lowered penal- ties for certain property and drug possession crimes and authorized about $55 million in grants since 2013 to pay for counties to set up and enhance support services for offenders on probation and parole. Inmates who don’t have a manda- tory minimum sentence and have no violations or program failures in the past 12 months are eligible for short- term transitional leave. Doubling the length of the program would help delay opening a second women’s prison by at least two years and possibly longer, according to an analysis by the Oregon Justice Commission. Combined with other efforts, the program might help eliminate the need for a second women’s prison in the future, Piluso said. The program’s expansion to 90 days has saved 182,642 prison bed days since January 2014. That represents a cost savings of at least $16.6 million, after subtracting the cost of jail beds for offenders By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau In an effort to avert the cost of opening another women’s prison, a Gresham lawmaker wants to expand an early-release program that already has saved 182,642 state prison bed days. Known as short-term transitional leave, the program has been “the most successful sentencing change” in the three-year old “Justice Rein- vestment” law in terms of saving money and increasing public safety, said Michael Schmidt, executive director of the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. Inmates eligible for the program are released 90 days short of their sentence. Rep. Carla Piluso, D-Gresham, is sponsoring a bill that could increase that to 120 to 180 days. “We are trying to save our state money, and we are trying to do what is right for public safety and these incarcerated women,” Piluso said. who violate conditions of release, according to a calculation by the Pamplin Media Group/EO Media Group capital bureau using DOC’s cost per inmate per day. Results since January 2014 so far have been promising. Only 5 percent of participants have failed the program, and most of them failed for technical reasons, said Jeremiah Stomberg, assistant director of the DOC Community Corrections Division. Critics of the early release program, however, say there is not yet enough data to determine if the program has been working. Timothy Colahan of the Oregon District Attorneys Association said criminal justice officials need at least three to four years of results to accu- rately predict recidivism rates and other impacts of releasing inmates early. Colahan said the association would likely oppose any legislation to expand the program at this point, especially if lawmakers provide no additional resources for housing inmates on early release. Overcrowding at the state’s only women’s prison, Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilson- ville, could force the Department of Corrections to open a second women’s prison at the old Oregon State Penitentiary Minimum Security facility in January 2018. Opening the second prison will cost an estimated $9.5 million, according to the Department of Corrections. The minimum security facility was shuttered in 2010 because of budget cuts. The threshold number of inmates that can safely be housed at Coffee Creek is 1,280, said Colette Peters, director of the Department of Correc- tions. The prison’s population hovers just above or below the threshold on a daily basis, Peters said. Increasing the transitional leave program to 180 days would delay the need to open that facility by at least two years, according analysis by the Criminal Justice Commission. That could give lawmakers time to try other strategies to reduce the women’s prison population. Piluso said she is still garnering feedback on the proposal from pros- ecutors, DOC, county corrections offices and the Criminal Justice Commission. During a recent meeting of the legislative emergency board, Ways and Means co-chairman Richard Devlin said to avoid opening a second women’s prison, lawmakers will need to act fast on solutions. “I think we all recognize that legislation we passed in the last session did not have the degree of positive results we had hoped it would have,” Devlin said. “But we need to have more than a philosoph- ical discussion here and theoretical discussion of programs, because unless we show an actual long-term ability to keep (the population) under that threshold, we are going to have to open the Oregon Women’s Correctional Facility. We will not have a choice.” Surfer punched shark in gills to survive Safeway says it is subject By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press to Measure 97 after all PORTLAND — Safeway said Tuesday that it is, in fact, subject to taxation under Measure 97 — a reversal of what the company said in a state- ment last week delivered through the measure’s opponents. “We had a misunderstanding,” said Jill McGinnis, Oregon spokeswoman for Safeway and Albertsons. She said Albertsons stores, which share a common owner with Safeway, are not subject to the tax. The Oregonian/OregonLive reported online Tuesday that Safeway and Albert- sons were exempt from the tax, a conse- quence of the unusual way Measure 97 is organized. The initiative proposes a 2.5 percent tax on sales within Oregon over $25 million, but exempts certain types of businesses from the tax. The confusion over Safeway’s tax status underscores another feature of Measure 97, in that it’s not evident to people outside a business whether it is subject to taxation or not. Measure 97’s tax applies to compa- nies registered as C-corporations, which are often large businesses, but does not Stephanie Yao Long/The Oregonian via AP Joseph Tanner, who survived a shark bite while surfing on the Oregon Coast on Oct. 10 shows his scars while speaking with the media at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland. mangled leg. Friends later told him he paddled about 200 yards — a five-minute ordeal — before catching a wave and riding it in for the last 40 yards, he said. “I just paddled my life away. That was probably the scariest moment, trying to get back to the shore and leaving a trail of blood,” Tanner said. “I couldn’t lift up my arms anymore and I just rolled off my board in six inches of water and people came from all over.” Tanner, a critical care nurse at Legacy Emmanuel Hospital’s intensive care unit, immediately began telling his rescuers what to do. He directed them to make a tourniquet from a T-shirt and, when that wasn’t tight enough, he told them to make another out of the leash from his board. Six people used a surfboard like a backboard and carried him up a steep slope and over rocky ground to the parking lot above. While they waited for help, Tanner had them call the ambu- lance and provide his blood type in case he needed a transfusion. He also told them to cut off his wetsuit so paramedics could start an IV when they arrived. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. 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There are many distinctions among the various types of companies, and different tax implications for each corporate status. But for our purposes think of it this way: • C-corps frequently have many investors, like a publicly traded corpo- ration. • S-corps have few owners. Some- times that’s a family-owned business, but it can also be a large business controlled by one person or company. • A “benefit company” is a special category of business under Oregon law, established to create public benefits in addition to profits for the owners. On Tuesday, McGinnis said Safeway is actually a C-corporation, subject to the tax. But she said Albertsons’ struc- ture is exempt from the tax. Safeway has 94 stores in Oregon; Albertsons has 31. McGinnis acknowledged that Safeway and Albertsons had signed off on the incorrect statement from Measure 97’s opponents regarding their status. Safeway and Albertsons have contributed $1.8 million to the “No” campaign fighting Measure 97, as much as any other business. By MIKE ROGOWAY The Oregonian PORTLAND — Joseph Tanner was resting his arms on his surf board, his lower body dangling in the water, when something grabbed his right leg and yanked him under the waves. In an instant, Tanner knew he was being attacked by a shark in the chilly waters off the northern Oregon coast and he wondered if he would die, he recalled Wednesday, nearly three weeks after the Oct. 10 attack north of Cannon Beach. The shark had his right leg in its jaw — a bite that would later measure 26 inches from his upper thigh to his ankle — and as Tanner struggled to break free, he remembered that he should try to punch the shark in the nose or poke it in the eye. “I opened my eyes and there were gills in front of me. I can’t reach the nose and I can’t reach the eyeballs, so I just started hitting the gills,” said the 29-year-old. 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