Community Corrections is a partnership between the Oregon Department of Corrections and local community corrections departments that serves to provide a cost-effective means to hold offenders accountable, changing their criminal behavior while protecting the community. These offenders have often been in prison and have four or more previous felony convictions. Typically, higher risk offenders have serious substance abuse problems that contribute to their criminal behavior. Offenders considered the highest risk are given the greatest amount of attention, especially if their behavior and compliance with the orders of the court or Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision is less than desired. The contacts include home visits, office visits, employment checks, and checks with other agencies including law enforcement and social service agencies.
Contact is progressively less frequent as risk decreases.
Each offender is subject to a full array of sanctions and services to help hold him or her accountable and in reducing the likelihood that he or she will commit more crimes. Additionally, offenders are often subject to unannounced home visits, searches, random urine testing for drug use, or polygraph testing to monitor compliance with conditions of supervision. This system allows the officer to hold the offender accountable for behavior in a consistent manner through imposition of a swift sanction commensurate with that behavior.