Oregon Department of Corrections: Criminal Alien Report for the Americas March 2021

Oregon Department of Corrections: Criminal Alien Report for the Americas March 2021

April 10, 2021

Data Compiled By David Olen Cross

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on March 1, 2021 that 670 of the 756 foreign nationals (criminal aliens) in the state’s prison system self-declared their countries of origin as being located in the Americas — North, Central and South America and the West Indies — 88.62 percent of the criminal alien prison population (Note: The United States of America (USA) and USA territories are excluded from this report.):

– North America (Mexico and Canada) had 599 criminal aliens — 89.40 percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;

– Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Belize and Panama) had 52 criminal aliens — 7.76 percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;

– South America (Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and Colombia) had seven criminal aliens — 1.04 percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;

– The West Indies (Cuba, Grenada and Jamaica) had 12 criminal aliens — 1.79 percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas.

Criminal aliens from 16 countries located in the Americas were incarcerated in the DOC prison system.

Mexican nationals were 595 of 670 criminal aliens from the Americas incarcerated in the DOC prison system — 88.81 percent of the alien inmates from the Americas in the state’s prisons.

Some background information, all 670 criminal aliens incarcerated in the DOC prison system from the Americas were identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and have ICE immigration detainers placed on them.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the self-declared countries of origin of the 670 criminal alien inmates from the Americas by number and percentage incarcerated on March 1st in the state’s prisons.

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 March 21.

Here are the ways Oregon residents were victimized by the 670 criminal aliens from the Americas.

Significant numbers, there were 402 of the 670 criminal alien inmates from the Americas incarcerated in DOC prisons for three types of sex crimes — rape, sex abuse and sodomy — 60.00 percent of the alien inmates from the Americas in the state’s prisons.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the number and percentage of criminal alien inmates from the Americas incarcerated on March 1st by type of crime.

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 March 21.

Criminal aliens from the Americas incarcerated in DOC prisons committed at least one crime in 26 of 36 Oregon counties — 72.22 percent of the counties in the state.

Using DOC ICE immigration detainer numbers, the following table reveals the number and percentage of criminal alien inmates from the Americas incarcerated on March 1st that weresentto prison from the state’s 36 counties.

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 March 21.

Beyond the DOC criminal alien incarceration numbers and percentages by countries of origin, by crime types or by the state’s counties, criminal aliens from the Americas pose high economic cost on Oregon tax payers.

An individual inmate incarcerated in the DOC prison system costs the state approximately ($116.89) per day.

The DOC’s incarceration cost for its 670 criminal alien prison population from the Americas is approximately ($78,316.30) per day, ($548,214.10) per week, and ($28,585,449.50) per year.

None of preceding cost estimates for the DOC to incarcerate the 670 criminal aliens from the Americas includes the dollar amount for legal services (indigent defense), language interpreters, court costs, or victim assistance.

Bibliography:

Oregon Department of Corrections Population Profile (unpublished MS Excel workbook) titled Incarcerated Criminal Aliens Report dated March 1, 2021.

Oregon Department of Corrections Issue Brief Quick Facts, November 2020: https://www.oregon.gov/doc/Documents/agency-quick-facts.pdf

David Olen Cross of Salem, Oregon is crime a researcher who writes on immigration issues and foreign national crime. The preceding report is a service to federal, state, county and city elected and non elected governmental officials to help them assess the impact of foreign national crime in the United States of America. He can be reached at [email protected]. His current and past crime reports can be found at https://docfnc.wordpress.com/.