Legislators mull methods to reincarcerate people released from Oregon prisons in error - Street Roots
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When prison staff told Natalia Hernandez in August she was being released early, she initially didn’t want to leave.  “At one point, I even begged them to stay,” she recently told lawmakers.   At the time, she didn’t know where she would live, work or continue substance-use treatment after leaving Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Staff […]

Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would codify how prison officials can haul people back behind bars if they may have been released in error. Critics say it would enshrine overreach.