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2011 Oregon Revised Statutes
ORS Volume 10, Chapters 366 - 430
ORS Chapter 421
421.455 Forest work camps; restrictions on placement at camps.


OR Rev Stat § 421.455 (through Leg Sess 2011) What's This?

(1) The Director of the Department of Corrections shall establish at places in state forests recommended by the State Board of Forestry one or more forest work camps at which state inmates and local inmates may be employed. Only such state inmates as are determined by the Department of Corrections to require minimum security may be placed at a forest work camp, but the Department of Corrections shall not place an inmate at a forest work camp if the department is aware that the inmate has ever been convicted, of:

(a) Rape in the first degree, as described in ORS 163.375.

(b) Rape in the second degree, as described in ORS 163.365.

(c) Rape in the third degree, as described in ORS 163.355.

(d) Sodomy in the first degree, as described in ORS 163.405.

(e) Sodomy in the second degree, as described in ORS 163.395.

(f) Sodomy in the third degree, as described in ORS 163.385.

(g) Unlawful sexual penetration in the first degree, as described in ORS 163.411.

(h) Unlawful sexual penetration in the second degree, as described in ORS 163.408.

(i) Sexual abuse in the first degree, as described in ORS 163.427.

(j) Sexual abuse in the second degree, as described in ORS 163.425.

(k) Any crime in any other jurisdiction that would constitute a crime described in this subsection if presently committed in this state.

(L) Any attempt to commit a crime described in this subsection.

(2) The State Board of Forestry may make contracts with any other state agency in order to effectuate the purposes of ORS 421.455, 421.465, 421.470 and 421.476. [Amended by 1965 c.616 72; 1967 c.504 5; 1987 c.320 201; 1987 c.478 1; 1991 c.386 13; 1991 c.830 12]

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