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Oregon: Prosecutors, Victims Kill Money-Saving Increased Sentence Reduction Law

In a controversial move touted as saving Oregon an estimated $6 million, in June 2009 the state legislature passed a bill that increased earned time sentence reductions for non-violent offenders by an additional 10 percent. Just seven months later, however, prosecutors and crime victims successfully pressured lawmakers to suspend the ...

 

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