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Extra Earned Time Sentence Reductions Save Oregon $25 Million
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2011, page 12
Early prison releases saved Oregon at least $25 million in 2009, according to an audit report by the Secretary of State’s office released in December 2010.On November 1, 1989, Oregon replaced its indeterminate parole matrix sentencing system with a determinate sentencing guideline system. Like similar shifts across the U.S., ...
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