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Someone attached to Oregon here – it isn't, and it's even harder to retain people at current pay grades in state corrections medical. (Let alone public defense,
by nxobject 2y ago
Someone attached to Oregon here – it isn't, and it's even harder to retain people at current pay grades in state corrections medical. (Let alone public defense, which the article mentions means that people are being let go in many counties before non-drug-related charges are tried.)
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/03/amid-mounting-scrutiny-oregon-department-of-corrections-shakes-up-health-care-division/ https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/02/03/amid-mounting-...
- josefritzishere 2y agoYou inspired me to go looking for cost analysis. It's worse than I thought. Oregon is about 79k per year, per person, based on 2024 numbers in this pretty infogrpahic. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-per-prisoner-in-us-states/ https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-per-prisoner-in-us-sta...