Oregon Statutes - Chapter 423 - Corrections and Crime Control Administration and Programs

• 423.010   Definitions for ORS 423.010 to 423.070.
  As used in ORS 423.010 to 423.070, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Department” means the Department of Corrections. (2) “Department of Corrections institutions” has...
• 423.020   Department of Corrections; duties and powers; fees.
  (1) The Department of Corrections is created. The department shall: (a) Supervise the management and administration of the Department of Corrections institutions, parole and probation...
• 423.025   [1969 c.597 §§97,137; repealed by 1971 c.319 §11]
• 423.027   [1969 c.597 §111; 1975 c.605 §21; repealed by 1985 c.565 §66]
• 423.030   Department not limited by ORS 423.020.
  The enumeration of duties, functions and powers in ORS 423.020 is not exclusive nor intended as a limitation on the powers and authority vested in...
• 423.035   Application of ORS 409.710 (1).
  ORS 409.710 (1) applies to the Department of Corrections. [Derived from 1987 c.781 §2] Note: 423.035 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but...
• 423.040   [1965 c.616 §4; 1967 c.7 §39; 1969 c.597 §100; 1971 c.319 §7; repealed by 1987 c.320 §246]
• 423.050   [1965 c.616 §5; repealed by 1987 c.320 §246]
• 423.060   [1965 c.616 §6; 1969 c.597 §101; repealed by 1987 c.320 §246]
• 423.070   Deposit and disbursement of funds received under Western Interstate Corrections Compact.
  All funds received by this state or by the Department of Corrections under a lawful contract with another party to the Western Interstate Corrections Compact...
• 423.075   Director; appointment; duties; rules.
  (1) The Department of Corrections shall be under the supervision and control of a director who is responsible for providing for programs for the delivery...
• 423.076   Director’s authority to grant peace officer power to corrections officer.
  (1) The Director of the Department of Corrections may grant to an individual corrections officer or classification of corrections officer all the powers and authority...
• 423.078   Visitors; visiting status; administrative review of status changes; rules.
  The Department of Corrections shall establish by rule an internal procedure for administrative review of decisions to revoke or restrict an approved visitor’s visiting status...
• 423.080   [1967 c.564 §§8,9; repealed by 1969 c.597 §281]
• 423.085   Administrator of Correctional Education.
  (1) The Director of the Department of Corrections shall appoint an unclassified employee to the position of Administrator of Correctional Education. (2) The Administrator of...
• 423.090   Establishment or designation of diagnostic facilities.
  The Department of Corrections may establish or designate facilities to be used for diagnostic purposes for such categories of persons as the department may by...
• 423.093   Reimbursement of expenses from prisoner; limitation.
  Neither the Department of Corrections nor any city or county may seek reimbursement for expenses incurred in safekeeping and maintaining prisoners through a counterclaim or...
• 423.097   Department of Corrections Account.
  (1) The Department of Corrections Account is established in the General Fund of the State Treasury. Except for moneys otherwise designated by statute, all fees,...
• 423.100   Revolving fund.
  (1) On written request of the Department of Corrections, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall establish a revolving fund of not to exceed $15,000,...
• 423.205   [1969 c.177 §7; repealed by 1985 c.44 §2 and 1985 c.558 §9]
• 423.210   [1967 c.572 §1; 1969 c.177 §4; repealed by 1985 c.44 §2 and 1985 c.558 §9]
• 423.220   [1967 c.572 §2; 1969 c.177 §1; 1973 c.212 §1; 1973 c.792 §15; repealed by 1985 c.44 §2 and 1985 c.558 §9]
• 423.230   [1967 c.572 §3; 1969 c.177 §2; repealed by 1985 c.44 §2 and 1985 c.558 §9]
• 423.240   [1967 c.572 §4; 1969 c.177 §3; repealed by 1985 c.44 §2 and 1985 c.558 §9]
• 423.280   [1967 c.572 §5; repealed by 1985 c.44 §2 and 1985 c.558 §9]
• 423.310   [1967 c.534 §7; 1971 c.401 §108; 1981 c.171 §3; renumbered 419A.044 in 1997]
• 423.315   [1981 c.171 §2; renumbered 419A.045 in 1997]
• 423.320   [1967 c.534 §8; 1971 c.401 §109; repealed by 1981 c.171 §7]
• 423.330   [1969 c.498 §2; 1971 c.429 §2; 1981 c.171 §4; renumbered 419A.046 in 1997]
• 423.340   [1969 c.498 §3; 1971 c.429 §3; 1981 c.171 §5; renumbered 419A.047 in 1997]
• 423.350   [1969 c.498 §4; 1971 c.401 §110; 1971 c.429 §1; 1981 c.171 §6; renumbered 419A.048 in 1997]
• 423.360   [1969 c.498 §5; 1971 c.401 §111; repealed by 1981 c.171 §7]
• 423.400   Office established; appointment by Governor.
  The office of Corrections Ombudsman is established in the office of the Governor. The Governor shall appoint the Corrections Ombudsman. [1977 c.378 §1]
• 423.405   Qualifications for office; prohibited activities.
  (1) The Corrections Ombudsman shall be a person of recognized judgment, objectivity and integrity who is qualified by training and experience to analyze problems of...
• 423.410   Term; reappointment.
  The Corrections Ombudsman shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor for a term of four years. The Corrections Ombudsman may be reappointed for additional...
• 423.415   Deputy and additional officers and employees.
  The Corrections Ombudsman may appoint a Deputy Ombudsman and any other subordinate officers and employees necessary to the performance of the duties of the ombudsman...
• 423.420   General duties and powers; rules.
  The Corrections Ombudsman shall have the power: (1) To investigate, on complaint or on the ombudsman’s own motion, any action by the Department of Corrections...
• 423.425   Investigatory authority.
  (1) The Corrections Ombudsman shall investigate, on complaint or on the ombudsman’s own motion, any corrections action that is or is alleged to be: (a)...
• 423.430   Investigative priority; confidentiality of matters; charging fees prohibited.
  The Corrections Ombudsman shall: (1) Give priority to investigating administrative actions that are not otherwise reviewable by either administrative or judicial action; (2) Treat confidentially...
• 423.435   Recommendations following investigation; notice from Department of Corrections of action taken; notice to Legislative Assembly of recommended statutory changes.
  (1) After investigation of any action, the Corrections Ombudsman shall state the recommendations and reasons if, in the ombudsman’s opinion, the Department of Corrections or...
• 423.440   Letters between ombudsman and persons in custody; immunity of complainants and ombudsman; privilege against giving evidence or testifying.
  (1) A letter to the Corrections Ombudsman from a person held in custody, including by detention, incarceration and hospitalization, by the Department of Corrections shall...
• 423.445   Witness rights; fees; expenses of state agency personnel.
  (1) Any person required to testify under ORS 423.400 to 423.450 shall be accorded the same privileges and immunities, receive the same fees and mileage...
• 423.450   Contempt proceedings against person interfering with ombudsman.
  If any person willfully obstructs or hinders the proper and lawful exercise of the Corrections Ombudsman’s powers, or willfully misleads or attempts to mislead the...
• 423.475   Findings.
  The Legislative Assembly finds and declares that: (1) Passage by the voters of chapter 2, Oregon Laws 1995, has created mandatory minimum penalties for certain...
• 423.478   Duties of department and counties; authority of county supervisory authority.
  (1) The Department of Corrections shall: (a) Operate prisons for offenders sentenced to terms of incarceration for more than 12 months; (b) Provide central information...
• 423.483   Baseline funding; basis on which county can discontinue participation.
  (1) The baseline funding for biennia beginning after June 30, 1999, is the current service level for the expenses of providing management, support services, supervision...
• 423.500   Definitions for ORS 423.500 to 423.560.
  As used in ORS 423.500 to 423.560, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Director” means the Director of the Department of Corrections. (2) “Department” means...
• 423.505   Legislative policy on program funding.
  Because counties are in the best position for the management, oversight and administration of local criminal justice matters and for determining local resource priorities, it...
• 423.510   [1977 c.412 §2; 1985 c.44 §3; 1985 c.558 §7; repealed by 1995 c.423 §31]
• 423.515   [1977 c.412 §4; 1987 c.320 §220a; repealed by 1995 c.423 §31]
• 423.520   Financial grants to counties from Department of Corrections.
  The Department of Corrections shall make grants to assist counties in the implementation and operation of community corrections programs including, but not limited to, preventive...
• 423.525   Application for financial aid; review of application; rules for program evaluation; use of funds; community corrections manager; modification of plan.
  (1) A county, group of counties or intergovernmental corrections entity shall apply to the Director of the Department of Corrections in a manner and form...
• 423.530   Procedure for determining amount of financial grants; rules.
  (1) Financial grants for community corrections pursuant to ORS 423.500 to 423.560 consist of the Grant-in-Aid Program. The Grant-in-Aid Program consists of moneys appropriated to...
• 423.535   Biennial community corrections plan required; county authority to contract for services.
  (1) Prior to receiving funds, the county shall have a biennial community corrections plan. (2) The county and the Department of Corrections shall enter into...
• 423.540   Program compliance review by Director of Department of Corrections; effect of failure to comply.
  The Director of the Department of Corrections shall annually review a county’s compliance with the intergovernmental agreement under ORS 423.500 to 423.560. A county must...
• 423.545   [1977 c.412 §9; 1987 c.320 §226; repealed by 1995 c.423 §31]
• 423.549   State positions in community corrections branch; abolishment; county authority; affected employees; pay.
  (1) Notwithstanding ORS 236.605 to 236.640, all state positions in the state community corrections branch of the Department of Corrections, the funding for which is...
• 423.550   [1977 c.412 §10; 1987 c.320 §227; 1989 c.607 §3; 1989 c.614 §3; 1993 c.680 §2; repealed by 1995 c.423 §15 (423.549 enacted in lieu of 423.550)]
• 423.551   [1989 c.614 §5; repealed by 1995 c.423 §31]
• 423.552   [1989 c.510 §2; repealed by 1995 c.423 §30]
• 423.553   [1989 c.510 §3; repealed by 1995 c.423 §30]
• 423.554   [1989 c.510 §§4,5; repealed by 1995 c.423 §30]
• 423.555   Statewide program evaluation and information system.
  The Department of Corrections shall establish and operate, with the cooperation and participation of county community corrections agencies, a statewide evaluation and information system to...
• 423.560   Local public safety coordinating council; duties.
  (1) The board or boards of county commissioners of a county shall convene a local public safety coordinating council. The council shall include, but need...
• 423.565   Additional duties of public safety coordinating council.
  In addition to the duties assigned to it under ORS 423.560, the local public safety coordinating council convened by the board of commissioners shall, at...
• 423.569   Annual summary.
  (1) The board or boards of county commissioners that have convened a local public safety coordinating council shall publish an annual summary of program, service...
• 423.570   Monthly fee payable by person on supervised release; use; payment as condition of release; waiver.
  (1) A person sentenced to probation or placed by an authority on parole, post-prison supervision or other form of release, subject to supervision by a...

Last modified: August 7, 2008