Title 16, Crimes and Punishments

All convicts sentenced by any court or legal authority, whether in default of the payment of a fine, or committed for a definite number of days to serve sentence in a county local correctional facility, during the period of such sentence, for the purposes of ORS 169.120 and 169.1…

All convicts sentenced by any court or legal authority in any city, whether in default of the payment of a fine or committed for a definite number of days to serve sentence in any local correctional facility, during the period of the sentence shall, with the consent of the proper…

Any county court or board of county commissioners may transfer to the county court or board of county commissioners of any other county any of the convicts committed to its control, under ORS 169.170 or 169.180. The court or board to which such convicts are so transferred has the…

(1) Except for work release programs, no county or city shall enter into any agreement or contract with any private person, firm or corporation for the employment of any convict. (2) If any board or tribunal is created which has charge and management of the public roads of the co…

All persons lawfully confined in a county local correctional facility, or as prisoners engaged in work under the custody and jurisdiction of a county, shall be fed and maintained at actual cost to the county. All persons confined in a county local correctional facility shall be g…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 169.170 to 169.210, each county sheriff has custody and control of all persons legally committed or confined in the county local correctional facility of the county of the sheriff during the period of the commitment or confinement. Under th…

When a prisoner has been committed to the county local correctional facility to be held until the prisoner has paid a sum of money to a private party, or a fine or penalty to the state, and is permitted to depart the facility without legal order or process, the private party or t…

(1) A sheriff who suffers the escape of a prisoner, arrested or in a local correctional facility, without the consent or connivance of the party on whose behalf the arrest or imprisonment was made, is liable to an action by such party, as follows: (a) When the arrest is upon an o…

When a sheriff or the officer of the sheriff, upon whom is served a paper in a judicial proceeding directed to a prisoner in the custody of the sheriff or officer, fails to forthwith deliver it to the prisoner, with a note thereon of the time of its service, the sheriff is liable…

The sheriff may appoint a keeper of the county local correctional facility, to be denominated the jailer, for whose acts as such the sheriff is responsible. The appointment shall be in writing, and the sheriff shall file a certified copy thereof in the office of the county clerk.…

It is the policy of the Legislative Assembly to encourage better rehabilitative care to misdemeanants by encouraging the establishment of regional correctional facilities that can effectively provide a program that not only includes better custodial facilities than can be provide…

As used in ORS 169.610 to 169.677, “regional correctional facility” means a correctional facility operated pursuant to agreement as described in ORS 169.630 and used to house prisoners of the parties to the agreement, such prisoners having either pretrial or post-trial status. [1…

(1) Two or more counties, two or more cities, any combination of them, or the State of Oregon in combination with one or more cities or counties or both, may by agreement entered into pursuant to ORS 190.003 to 190.620, construct, acquire or equip, or may by such agreement operat…

Regional correctional facilities shall make available tampons, sanitary pads, postpartum pads and panty liners at no cost to all prisoners for use in connection with vaginal discharge. Facilities shall maintain a sufficient supply, which shall be stored, dispensed and disposed of…

(1) For purposes of sentencing and custody of a misdemeanant, a regional correctional facility shall be considered a county local correctional facility. (2) For purposes of sentencing or custody of a person for violating a city ordinance, the regional correctional facility shall …

A regional correctional facility operated under agreement by the Department of Corrections is not a state institution but it may be located in the same buildings as are used for a facility authorized by ORS 421.805. [1971 c.636 §7; 1987 c.320 §100]

(1) Persons confined in a regional correctional facility operated by the Department of Corrections shall be considered to be in the custody of the department and shall be subject to such rules as the department may prescribe. (2) Persons committed to the custody of the Department…

Whenever the governing body of a county or city transfers a misdemeanant or violator or a person with pretrial or post-trial status to a regional correctional facility operated by the Department of Corrections, the county or city shall pay the cost of transportation to and from t…

(1) The Department of Corrections shall negotiate with Marion County and Umatilla County, respectively, the conversion of Oregon State Correctional Institution and Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution into regional correctional facilities to house both state and county prisone…

If a Department of Corrections institution is made to operate as a regional correctional facility pursuant to agreement under ORS 169.673, the purposes of the institution shall include the imprisonment of either felony or misdemeanant prisoners, or both, of the parties to the agr…

(1) An inmate telephone service provider may not provide a fee or commission to a local or regional correctional facility, city or county for the provision of inmate telephone services other than a fee of five cents per minute or less, or other amount authorized by the Public Uti…

(1) A local or regional correctional facility, city or county that issues a request for proposals to procure inmate telephone services shall: (a) Consider call quality as a primary consideration when evaluating proposals; and (b) Weight call quality at not less than 35 percent of…

(1) A city or county that maintains a local or regional correctional facility shall establish an Inmate Welfare Fund Account, separate and distinct from the general fund of the city or county. All moneys in the account may be expended only for inmate welfare and may not be used f…

(1)(a) Before the Department of Corrections, Department of Human Services, Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Youth Authority or any city, county or other public agency establishes a facility described in paragraph (b) of this subsection, the city, county, department, authority or a…

As used in ORS 169.740 to 169.760: (1) “Isolation” means confinement of a juvenile in any room which lacks toilet facilities, furniture, reading and recreation materials or access to light and air comparable to that in other rooms used for the detention of juveniles. (2) “Roomloc…

(1) The standards established in ORS 169.076 to 169.078 apply to juveniles detained in juvenile detention facilities. (2) In addition, juvenile detention facilities shall: (a) Provide for personal inspection of each juvenile at least once each hour unless a particular situation r…

A juvenile detention facility may not: (1) Impose upon a detained juvenile for purposes of discipline or punishment any infliction of or threat of physical injury or pain, deliberate humiliation, physical restraint, withholding of meals, or isolation, or detention under condition…

All juvenile detention facilities, within six months following November 1, 1981, shall have established comprehensive written policies providing for the least restrictive alternative consistent with the safety and security of the facility, ORS 169.076, 169.078, 169.740 and 169.75…

Notwithstanding the procedures set out in ORS 169.080 and 419A.061, the juvenile court in which venue lies pursuant to 419B.100 or 419C.005 shall, upon motion of any party or on its own motion, and after prompt hearing, release any juvenile detained in a facility which violates O…

Notwithstanding a waiver order under ORS 419C.349, 419C.352, 419C.364 or 419C.370, if a person under 16 years of age is detained prior to conviction or after conviction but prior to execution of sentence, such detention shall be in a facility used by the county for detention of j…

(1) Assumption by the regional correctional facility of those custodial duties formerly performed by a county or city jail constitutes an assumption of duties by a public employer subject to ORS 236.610 to 236.640. (2) An employee who transfers from employment at a county or city…

As used in ORS 169.853: (1) “Commission” means the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. (2) “Local correctional facility” has the meaning given that term in ORS 169.005 and also means any facility operated by a county supervisory authority, as defined in ORS 144.087, including fac…

(1) The Oregon Jail-Based Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Grant Program is established in the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to provide opioid use disorder treatment and transition planning services to persons in custody in local correctional facilities and tribal correct…

(1) The Oregon Jail-Based Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Fund is established in the State Treasury, separate and distinct from the General Fund. Interest earned by the Oregon Jail-Based Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Fund shall be credited to the fund. The fund consists…