About two months ago, we wrote to tell you all about the successes Partnership for Safety and Justice were having with their effort to move omnibus criminal justice reform bills through the Oregon legislature.  Well, we’ve got good news.  The bill has passed!  The bill that was put through the legislature includes a number of reforms that PSJ has been working hard for:

  • Increase in earned time for about 1/3 of the prison population
  • Reduction of the length of re-incarceration of felony probationers for technical violations
  • Creation of earned time for probations
  • Suspension of the most expensive sentencing enhancements of the recent ballot measure, measure 57

There was another article in The Oregonian about the passing of this bill.  You can read that article here.

Congratulations to Partnership for Safety and Justice and all the others who put time and effort into achieving this victory!  Thank you for all your hard work.