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Article: Oregon budget trims drug courts' funding
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- Corrections Digest
- Article date:
- August 17, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Washington Crime News Service Aug 17, 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Oregon's legislature adopted a budget for the next spending cycle that cuts contributions to the state's pioneering drug courts and reduces legal defense funds for indigents.
In 1991, Oregon became the second state after Florida to create drug courts as supervisory institutions that provide oversight of non-- violent offenders as alternatives to incarceration.
Last year, drug courts supervised 1,489 offenders and graduated 485. Oregon estimates drug courts cost about $2,200 per offender compared with county jail costs ranging from a low of about $21,000 to a high of $37,000 for incarceration.
The final court budget of $406 million falls $3.5 million short for operations, which will fall ...