Prison Reform - The Best and Brightest

*Prison Reform: In order to leave prison with a sentence of 1 year or longer you must go through and complete an intensive job-training program in one of the top 10 most needed industries. job training must be complete in order to be let out.

*Prison Reform: In order to leave prison with a sentence of 1 year or longer you must take college courses and pass each and every class taken in order to be let out.

*Prison Reform: Drug and alcohol rehabilitation is now required for any convict regardless of time.

Don't like these requirements? Don't go to prison.

Ex-convicts will come out of prison educated, clean and ready to take on the job market.

Let's make these men and women leaving our prison system The Best and Brightest. These folks are also part of Oregon's future.

Over 75% of ex cons who leave prison without an education end up coming back into the system. Studies have proven that requiring an education as mandatory in order to be set free, saves the county hundreds of thousand in return felons.

If you do not accomplish these reforms then you stay in prison until you do. That is the requirement.

"If" the Oregon Supreme Court does not allow us to hold a convict in the system any longer then sentence given then...in turn we will definitely not allow any early release for those inmates. It is known that most convicts often do not spend the entirety of their sentence. They get reduced time for good behavior. Often years will be shortened. They will all be held to their full term with the strictest of rules...unless of course they complete all 3 prison reforms. Then early release will be requested and approved by the state.

We must tackle the cost of getting arrested, the cost of paying off tickets and the cost of paying city/county fines...Specifically from people making below a certain income. People living in poverty and requiring them to pay heavy fines will only perpetuate their problem. Spending years trying to pay off those fines only digs them deeper in the hole creating a life-long burden. It is the literally the worst idea. Always offer community services such as graffiti clean-up, collecting trash along highways, subsidized housing maintenance, cleaning roads and rivers...and many other things the state needs done as a way to pay off their debt.

Getting caught in possession of drugs will no longer a prison sentence. Drug and alcohol rehabilitation and education at a treatment center is the option. Current drug sentences will be expunged of their prison sentence and go immediately into rehab. 

On job resume's or applications we will no longer ask "convicted of a Felon?" Employers will no longer be able to ask if you have you have a record.