The youth prison was closed in 2003 because of state budget cuts.
(ALBANY) - Two mid-valley Legislators want to re-open the Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility in Albany next year.
State Senator Frank Morse, R-Albany, and Representative Andy Olsen, R-Albany, are proposing that the Oregon Youth Authority move 75 female youth offenders from Hillcrest in Salem and from the Corvallis House to Oak Creek.
The move would free-up beds for boys to move from the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn to Hillcrest.
Linn and Benton counties still operate a juvenile detention center at Oak Creek.
Morse said he wasn’t sure yet exactly how much it will cost the OYA to operate the facility.
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