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Archive Home > 2009 > April > 03 > Prison population is expected to grow fast

Prison population is expected to grow fast

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
April 3, 2009

SALEM — A state report issued this week projects that Measure 57, the crime-sentencing measure approved by voters in November, will add 1,600 inmates to Oregon’s prison population by 2013.

The measure, which took effect Jan. 1, requires sending repeat property and drug crime....

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