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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.
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TODAY
affect a “benefit company” or S-corpo-
ration, reports The Oregonian.
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.
The shark released him and he
screamed a warning to his friends
who were surfing about 40 feet
away, then began paddling to
shore on his board.
He was terrified the shark
was following him, tracking him
by the blood streaming from his
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Mostly cloudy tonight with a shower in
places.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
and cooler today with a couple of showers.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today
and tonight with a couple of showers.
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Cascades: Cloudy today with a little rain.
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Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
a shower, but periods of rain at the coast. A
shower tonight.
Northern California: Cloudy today; rain;
however, a couple of showers in the interior
mountains.
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 95° in Phoenix, Ariz.
Low 19° in Angel Fire, N.M.
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