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East Oregonian
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Republican Winters builds career on justice reform
By PARIS ACHEN
Oregon Capital Bureau
When state Sen. Jackie
Winters hears the word
“felon,” she often thinks
of her late husband, Marc
“Ted” Winters.
Her husband, who died
in 2008, had a prestigious
career in the gubernato-
rial administrations of Tom
McCall and Bob Straub.
But before that, he was
one of thousands of inmates
in Oregon’s state prisons.
His catapult from a
prison cell at the Oregon
State Penitentiary to the
governor’s staff is a story
of redemption. His path
has been an overwhelming
influence on the Salem
senator’s work to reform the
criminal justice system and
improve inmates’ chances
of rehabilitation.
“I think we forget about
the whole issue of redemp-
tion and forgiveness when
we are dealing with the
criminal justice system,”
said Winters in an interview
at her legislative office in
Salem.
Her commitment to
justice reform prompted her
to give up her role as Senate
Republican leader at the end
of 2018.
Winters, a Christian, said
she believed in redemption
before she met her husband.
Before their relationship
turned romantic, Ted and
Jackie Winters saw each
other through their respec-
tive jobs. Once at a meeting
for Model Cities, where
Jackie Winters worked at
the time, Ted Winters sat
next to her. A pastor, her
friend from childhood, saw
them together and admon-
ished Winters for allowing a
convict to sit next to her, she
recounted.
“I lashed out at my
minister friend for being
unChristian and for not
giving another human being
a chance — a chance that
we as blacks could under-
stand so well,” Winters said
in her husband’s audio book,
Portland Tribune/Jaime Valdez
Jackie Winters was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1998 and the Oregon Senate in 2002. In 2017, she
became the first black leader of a legislative caucus.
“Never Kill Lions.”
Early in Winters’ career,
her race and gender created
obstacles to getting the
kinds of jobs she wanted.
Former inmates, she noted,
have similar obstacles when
they try to secure housing or
employment.
In one of his two autobi-
ographies, Ted Winters tells
of a meeting with Jackie
Winters, whose name was
Jackie McClain at the time.
Ted Winters was tasked
with building stronger ties
between McCall’s office
and North Portland’s black
community and visited
Jackie McClain at her Model
Cities office. When McClain
learned that Winters was
from the governor’s office,
she asked him to tell McCall
he needed a black woman on
his staff.
“And if he can’t find one,
I’m available,” she said,
according to Winters’ book,
“Lifer.”
By 1969, she was hired
for McCall’s State Economic
Opportunity Office.
She was elected in 1998
to serve in the House of
Representatives, making her
the first black Republican to
serve in the Oregon Legis-
lative Assembly. In 2002,
voters promoted her to the
Senate.
In
November
2017,
Winters became the first
black to lead an Oregon
legislative caucus. She was
elected as Senate Repub-
lican leader to succeed Sen.
Ted Ferrioli of John Day.
Winters’
commitment
to justice reform some-
times put her at odds with
members of her party, and
last month, she decided to
move out of leadership.
She
maintains
that
Republicans support justice
reform, but she was the only
Republican to sponsor one
of the most controversial
justice reforms of the 2017
Legislature. House Bill 3078
reduced prison sentences
for property thieves. The
majority of Senate Republi-
cans voted against the bill.
Some Republican sena-
tors said they couldn’t
support the bill because
sheriffs and district attor-
neys in their districts
opposed it, and they argued
the changes could jeopar-
dize public safety.
Winters said she doesn’t
accept those arguments.
She said it wasn’t hard to go
against her party because
she believes rehabilitation
of inmates, versus incarcer-
ation for the sake of punish-
ment, benefits society and
makes people safer.
The law reduced the
number of women serving
time for property and drug
crimes, in part to spare the
need for a second women’s
prison. The law also
advanced the state’s goal
of diverting more crimi-
nals from prison to social
services, such as drug and
alcohol treatment.
Clackamas
County
District Attorney John Foote
challenged the law in court.
He argued that legislators
had illegally circumvented
voters who mandated the
longer sentences in Measure
57 in 2008. The reform
legislation
had
subse-
quently passed with a simple
majority of the House and
Senate, but the Oregon
Constitution requires a
two-thirds majority to
overturn a voter-approved
measure, Foote argued.
The Oregon Supreme
Court heard arguments
in the case in September,
and Winters was there for
the hearing. A decision is
pending.
“Legislators don’t usually
attend arguments on laws
they have passed,” said Phil
Lemman, spokesman at the
Oregon Judicial Department.
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Lemman said he remem-
bers only one other instance
in the past year when a
legislator attended Supreme
Court arguments.
Winters doesn’t think
sentencing mandates make
sense.
“Sometimes it’s counter-
productive,” she said. “When
a person has changed and
their behavior has changed,
there should be a way —
whether it is the court takes
another look — of changing
that (sentence) so they
can become a productive
tax-paying citizen.”
Winters won a fourth
term in the Senate in
November. At age 81, this
could be her final term.
She said she wants to
use the next four years to
focus on justice reform
and expanding programs
that prevent incarceration
by providing treatment for
drug and alcohol abuse and
mental illness.
People with mental
illness “don’t belong in
prison,” Winters said.
She is part of a Behavioral
Health Justice Reinvest-
ment Steering Committee
convened by Senate Pres-
ident Peter Courtney to
recommend policies this
year to keep people with
mental illness out of prison.
“Right now, (justice
reform) is my greatest
passion,” she said.
Winters also wanted to
return to her seat on the
powerful Joint Ways &
Means Committee, which
determines much of state
spending and where she said
she can influence spending
on justice programs. She
said she had been on the
committee since she was
sworn into the House in
1999.
She is sponsoring several
justice reforms in legislation
before the 2019 Legislature.
Her
priorities
are
creating a domestic violence
commission to streamline
services between agencies
and justice reform for juve-
nile offenders.
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