Oregon Department of Corrections: Criminal Alien Report June 2016
By docfnc on July 21, 2016 at 11:55 PM, updated July 21, 2016 at 11:56 PM By David Olen Cross
The Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) June 2016 Inmate Population Profile indicated there were 14,709 inmates incarcerated in the DOC's 14 prisons.
Data obtained from the DOC indicated that on June 1st there were 954 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) incarcerated in the state's prison system; more than one in every sixteen prisoners incarcerated by the state was a criminal alien, 6.48 percent of the total prison population.
Some background information, all 954 criminal aliens currently incarcerated in the DOC prison system were identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a federal law enforcement agency that is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. If an inmate is identified by ICE as being a criminal alien, at the federal law enforcement agency's request, DOC officials will place an "ICE detainer" on the inmate.
After the inmate completes his/her state sanction, prison officials will transfer custody of the inmate to ICE.
Using DOC Inmate Population Profiles and ICE detainer numbers, the following table reveals the total number inmates, the number of domestic and criminal alien inmates along with the percentage of them with ICE detainers incarcerated on June 1st in the state's prisons.
Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile June 1, 2016:
http://www.oregon.gov/doc/RESRCH/doc...ile_201606.pdf
