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NORCOR education program helps reduce recidivism
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NORCOR education program helps reduce recidivism

  • By William Howell Oregon Youth Authority
  • Updated

Of the approximately 38,700 students who graduated from Oregon public schools last year, six came from Innovations Academy at NORCOR. Each graduation was a critical milestone not only in the life of that individual, but also a step toward a safer Oregon.

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Recidivism rate lowered

  • Neita Cecil
  • Updated

Recidivism has dropped at the regional jail because of programming implemented to address the problems that send people to jail in the first place, the jail administrator said. Bryan Brandenburg, administrator of the Northern Oregon Regional Corrections Facility, said recidivism – where people reoffend and end up back in jail – has dropped from 76 percent in 2014, the year before he took over, to just 61 percent today.