Specific Provisions
Ballot Measure 61 enacted the following provisions:
- Sets mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug and property crimes and for identity theft.
- It establishes a new felony crime of motor vehicle theft.
- A person sentenced under Measure 61 sentencing guidelines must serve his or her full sentence—the sentence could not be reduced for any reason.
- The sentences must be served in state prison facilities and work camps.
- The state is to reimburse counties for the cost of pre-trial detention for persons sentenced under Measure 61.
- Manufacturing or dealing heroin or ecstasy requires 36 months in prison.
- Manufacturing or dealing meth or cocaine within 1000 feet of a school requires 36 months in prison.
- Persons convicted of burglarizing a residence or identity theft must serve a 36-month sentence.
Read more about this topic: Oregon Ballot Measure 61 (2008)
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