Found 28 matches.
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Shut Down Sequel: Progress Report
Tags: Alabama | California | Michigan | Minnesota | Ohio | Oregon | Utah | Deinstitutionalization | Institutional Conditions | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Privatization | Advocacy | NJJN Publications
Shut Down Sequel Progress Report, outlining progress made in our efforts to shut down Sequel facilities and advocate for systemic reforms. NJJN repeats its call for states to end ties with Sequel, but compel states to go further in implementing protections for kids by: 1) ending the use of for-profit facilities for youth, 2) banning the use of restraint, and 3) bringing youth home, prioritizing community-based care over harmful congregate care settings.
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Profile of Federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Funding: Oregon
Tags: Oregon | Fiscal Issues and Funding | Partner Publications | Fact Sheets and Briefs
The federal allocation of grant funding to Oregon has dropped significantly in recent years. Nationwide, during the 16 years that the JJDPA went unauthorized, federal juvenile justice funding decreased by nearly 48%. In Oregon, meanwhile, between FY10 and FY 18 alone, the state experienced a 62% reduction in its formula and block grant allocations. *** Published by the Campaign of the National Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Coalition - Act 4 Juvenile Justice. www.act4jj.org
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NORCOR_DRO_Don't Look Around-A Window into Inhumane Conditions for Youth ...
Tags: Oregon | Deinstitutionalization | Detention | General System Reform | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Mental Health and Substance Abuse | Physical Health | Youth in the Adult System | Correctional Education | Reports | Research | Member Publications
The report shows the fact and statistics of youths being incarcerated in correctional facilities in Oregon. Due to the fact that a lot of facilities are not regulated, the safe and humane conditions for youth in such facilities have become a big concern. The lack of oversight and accountability has allowed Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facility (NORCOR), for example, to neglect the basic mental health and social development needs of kids in custody. Disability Rights Oregon is calling for immediate implementation of the 2016 recommendation by the Oregon State Court Juvenile Justice Mental Health Task Force: that all child-serving systems commit to employing evidence-based, trauma-informed practices and that juvenile detention facilities be regulated and licensed.
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Promoting Positive Development: The Critical Need to Reform Youth Probation Orders
Tags: Federal | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Washington | General System Reform | Life Without Parole and Parole Issues | Positive Youth Development and Strengths-Based Programming | Reports | Partner Publications
Research discussing the fairness and effectiveness of placing children on probation. Outlines the most common failings of probation orders and offers suggestions for making them age-appropriate, legal, and targeted towards positive development instead of seeking blind compliance.
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Infographic: It Takes a Village - Diversion Resources for Police and Families
Tags: Connecticut | Illinois | Michigan | Nebraska | Nevada | Oregon | Brain and Adolescent Development | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Deinstitutionalization | Status Offenses | Reports | Partner Publications
Summary of brief from Vera Institute of Justice explores the community-focused work being done in Nevada, Connecticut, Nebraska, Michigan, Illinois, and Oregon to find productive responses to youth "acting out."
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It Takes a Village: Diversion Resources for Police and Families
Tags: Connecticut | Illinois | Michigan | Nebraska | Nevada | Oregon | Brain and Adolescent Development | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Deinstitutionalization | Status Offenses | Reports | Partner Publications
This brief from Vera Institute of Justice explores the community-focused work being done in Nevada, Connecticut, Nebraska, Michigan, Illinois, and Oregon to find productive responses to youth "acting out."
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Suspension and expulsion patterns in six Oregon school districts
Tags: Oregon | School-to-Prison Pipeline | Reports
This study highlights student exclusionary patterns in urban school districts in Oregon during the 2011-12 school year. The study examines exclusionary discipline by grade, gender, race/ethnicity, and special education status.
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Oregon H.B. 4037 (2014)
Tags: Oregon | Youth in the Adult System | Legislation
Text of a bill drafted by the Partnership for Safety and Justice regarding the immediate transfer of youth convicted as adults to a youth facility rather than being processed through an adult facility.
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Oregon S.B. 463
Tags: Oregon | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Legislation
The 2013 Oregon Senate Bill requiring that the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission create, upon request of any member of the Legislative Assembly, a racial impact statement for proposed legislation.
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Oregon Allows Legislators to Request Racial and Ethnic Impact Statements for Juvenile Justice Legislation, S.B. 463
Tags: Oregon | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Legislation
The Oregon Legislature passed a bill allowing lawmakers to request racial and ethnic impact statements for any criminal justice, juvenile justice, or child welfare-related bill. Upon written request from one member of the Legislative Assembly from each major political party, the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission must produce a racial and ethnic impact statement for the bill in question. Such a statement must be “impartial, simple, and understandable,” and include an estimate of how the legislation would change the racial and ethnic composition of the targeted population, a statement of methodologies and assumptions used in preparing the estimate, and, if applicable, an estimate of the racial and ethnic composition of the crime victims who may be affected by the proposed legislation. The law is intended to help eliminate the severely disparate racial and ethnic impacts of the three systems. S.B. 463/Act No. 600, signed into law July 1, 2013; effective January 1, 2014.
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Oregon Continues to Limit Placement of Youth in Adult Facilities, H.B. 3183
Tags: Oregon | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Youth in the Adult System | Legislation
A new law in Oregon authorizes the county sheriff to send a youth sentenced to the custody of the Department of Corrections directly to a youth correctional facility if the youth was under 20 years of age at the time of sentencing and under 18 years of age at the time of the offense. The change allows youth to bypass adult intake. The law follows on the heels of H.B. 2707, passed in 2011, which established juvenile detention facilities as the default place of pre-trial confinement for youth who are facing adult criminal charges. H.B. 3183, signed into law and effective June 11, 2013.
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Oregon Authorizes Work Release Program for Youth with Criminal Convictions Who Are Confined in Youth Facilities, S.B. 188
Tags: Oregon | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Legislation
New legislation authorizes the Oregon Youth Authority (OYA) to establish a work release program for youth who are committed to the Department of Corrections, but in the physical custody of OYA. The legislation allows youth to leave facilities for employment, additional education, substance abuse programs, mental health programs, or programs to help develop independent living skills. Youth who have been convicted of more serious offenses are excluded from the program. S.B. 188/Act No. 229, signed into law and effective May 23, 2013.
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Transfer of Juveniles to Criminal Court is Not Correlated with Falling Youth Violence
Tags: Arizona | California | Florida | Ohio | Oregon | Washington | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
Jeffrey Butts of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice points out that the increase in juvenile transfers to adult court is not correlated with the fall in youth violence seen over the past six years.
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Oregon Facilitates Expungement of Youth Prostitution Records, H.B. 4146
Tags: Oregon | Legislation
Oregon law now requires expungement of juvenile records for prostitution offenses committed by youth under age 18. Such records may be expunged upon motion of the youth, the juvenile department, or the court, without a waiting period, and without a hearing if no objection is filed. H.B. 4146/Act No. 23, signed into law and effective March 5, 2012.
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Moving Beyond Sides: The Power and Potential of a New Public Safety Policy Paradigm
Tags: Oregon | Victims | Member Publications
This paper is designed to foster critical dialogue and actual movement toward more proactive and thoughtful collaboration between crime survivor advocates and criminal justice reform advocates who have a shared stake in creating a system focused on long-term, evidence-based policies best equipped to create safe and healthy communities.
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Moving Beyond Sides: The Power and Potential of a New Public Safety Policy Paradigm - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Tags: Oregon | Victims | Member Publications
This paper is designed to foster critical dialogue and actual movement toward more proactive and thoughtful collaboration between crime survivor advocates and criminal justice reform advocates who have a shared stake in creating a system focused on long-term, evidence-based policies best equipped to create safe and healthy communities.
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Misguided Measures: The Outcomes and Impacts of Measure 11 on Oregon's Youth, Campaign for Youth Justice and Partnership for Safety and Justice
Tags: Oregon | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
In 1994, Oregon voters passed Measure 11, which imposed long mandatory minimum sentences for certain crimes and required that youth charged with those crimes be automatically prosecuted as adults. Misguided Measures: The Outcomes and Impacts of Measure 11 on Oregon's Youth, co-released by the Campaign for Youth Justice and NJJN member Partnership for Safety and Justice, reviews the way Measure 11 has affected juvenile crime in the 15 years since it was enacted.
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Oregon Alleviates Some Registration Requirements for Youth Convicted of Sex Offenses, S.B. 408
Tags: Oregon | Collateral Consequences | Sex Offender Registries | Legislation
The Oregon State Legislature modified the relief process for youth convicted of sex offenses and required to register as sex offenders. Under the law, youth adjudicated of misdemeanor offenses will no longer be required to register, and the Oregon State Police must remove within one year those youth previously required to register for misdemeanors. Additionally, the law allows youth adjudicated of a Class C felony to apply for removal from the registry within 30 days prior to the case’s closure in juvenile court. Lastly, for youth convicted of Class A or Class B felonies, the law reduces the waiting period to apply for removal from the registry from three years to two years.
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Pass HB 2904: HB 2904 Creates a 'Second Look' for Youth Treated as Adults in Our Criminal Justice System, Partnership for Safety and Justice
Tags: Oregon | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
Fact sheet on legislation that would allow youth who have served half of their sentence the opportunity to go back before a judge. Second Look recognizes that youth can and do change and transform themselves and therefore the system of justice should not be static and inflexible.
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Pass SB 1014: SB 1014 Creates an Automatic Hearing Before Treating Youth as Adults in Our Criminal Justice System, Partnership for Safety and Justice
Tags: Oregon | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
Fact sheet on legislation that would allow youth charged with a Measure 11 crime to receive a hearing so that a judge can determine whether adult court is the best approach for accountability, public safety, and the rehabilitation of the juvenile or whether being sent to juvenile court would deliver the best results.
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Oregon Retains Pretrial Youth in Juvenile Facilities, Ohio, H.B. 2707
Tags: Oregon | Detention | Youth in the Adult System | Legislation
Ensures that youth charged as adults are held in juvenile detention pre-trial, rather than adult jails.
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Youth in Oregon Must Be Held in Juvenile Detention Pre-Trial, Rather than Adult Jails, H.B. 2707
Tags: Oregon | Detention | Youth in the Adult System | Legislation
An Oregon law makes juvenile detention the default place to hold youth charged as adults pre-trial. The bill addressed a glaring inconsistency in Oregon law, through which such youth were to be held in adult jail before trial and in youth facilities after conviction.
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Oregon Court Limits Shackling and Strip Searching of Youth, Yamhill County, Letter Opinion, February 7, 2011
Tags: Oregon | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Shackling | Court Decisions and Related Documents
A circuit court judge in Yamhill County, Oregon held that youth may be shackled in the courtroom and during video appearances only when it is necessary to prevent escape, injury, or destruction. The shackling may last only as long as such danger exists. The court also addressed strip searching in the case, ruling that strip searches may not be routinely conducted after visits and court appearances; searches must be restricted to those situations in which there is a reasonable suspicion that the youth might have acquired contraband.
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Oregon Develops Wraparound Initiative to Provide Youth Services, H.B. 2144
Tags: Oregon | Community-Based Alternatives and Supervision | Legislation
New legislation requires the Oregon Department of Education, Oregon Youth Authority, Department of Human Services, State Commission on Children and Families, and other agencies to participate in a wraparound initiative to support the family and youth they serve. Agencies must also ensure cultural competence in the services they provide.
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Oregon Portland Public School Board Policy, Student Conduct and Discipline, June 2009
Tags: Oregon | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Reports
In June 2009, Oregon’s largest urban school district, Portland Public Schools, established a new policy and committed to pilot projects in 10 schools to reduce the use of suspension and expulsion and, in particular, to reduce racial disparities in school discipline. The policy acknowledges the link between student achievement and discipline practices and states its interest in eliminating disparities in applying discipline.
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Oregon Custodial Interviews of Youth Charged as Adults Must Be Electronically Recorded, S.B. 309
Tags: Oregon | Juvenile Defense and Court Process | Legislation
Oregon law requires a custodial interview by a peace officer in a law enforcement facility to be electronically recorded if the interview is conducted in connection with an investigation of aggravated murder, crimes requiring the imposition of a mandatory minimum sentence, or crimes requiring adult prosecution of youth offenders. The law allows unrecorded statements into evidence, but requires that the judge give the jury instructions concerning the fact that the statement was not recorded.
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RAI 4 Implementation Fact Sheet, First Ten Months, Multnomah County, Oregon
Tags: Oregon | Racial and Ethnic Disparities | Risk Assessment and Screening | Reports
New validated detention risk instrument has decreased the detention rate for African American youth in Multnomah County by 15%.
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Protecting the Future of Oregon's Youth: The Justice for Youth Campaign, Partnership for Safety and Justice
Tags: Oregon | Youth in the Adult System | Reports
Brief discussing the problems with transferring youth to the adult criminal court, the benefits of juvenile court, implications of adolescent brain development research and the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Roper v. Simmons, public safety considerations, and public opinion polls.