The Oregonian: 75 inmates--mostly white men convicted of drug, property crimes--eligible for early release under Gov. Kate Brown's plan
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Twenty-eight states have already released inmates early in response to the pandemic and most took that step early in the crisis, said Carl Filler, a state policy analyst for the Justice Action Network, a national bipartisan organization based in Washington, D.C., that works on criminal justice reform.
Filler said those early releases typically involved hundreds of prisoners. In general, states looked at inmates convicted of low-level and nonviolent crimes who were approaching the end of their sentences or were medically compromised, he said.
“The criteria is really thinking about who can be safely released and recognizing that in prisons most folks are going to go back to their communities anyway,” he said.