Or. Rev. Stat. » Oregon Revised Statutes
Oregon Revised Statutes

Or. Rev. Stat. § 144.340 (2026)

Power to retake and return violators of parole and post-prison supervision

✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section ORSoregonlegislature.gov JustiaChapter on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

      144.340 Power to retake and return violators of parole and post-prison supervision. (1) The Department of Corrections, in accordance with the rules and regulations or directions of the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision or the Governor, as the case may be, may cause to have retaken and returned persons to the institution, or to the supervision of the local supervisory authority, whether in or out of the state, whenever they have violated the conditions of their parole or post-prison supervision.

      (2)(a) Persons retaken and returned to this state from outside the state upon order or warrant of the Department of Corrections, the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision or the Governor, for violation of conditions of parole or post-prison supervision, shall be detained in a Department of Corrections facility or a local correctional facility pending any hearing concerning the alleged violation and ultimate disposition by the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision.

      (b) Persons retaken and returned to this state from outside the state upon order or warrant of a local supervisory authority for violation of conditions of post-prison supervision may be detained in a local correctional facility pending a hearing concerning the alleged violation and ultimate disposition by the local supervisory authority.

      (3) Persons retaken and returned to this state from outside the state under this section are liable for the costs and expenses of retaking and returning the person upon:

      (a) A finding by the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision of present or future ability to pay; and

      (b) Order of the State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision. [Amended by 1969 c.597 §116; 1973 c.836 §297; 1987 c.320 §62; 1989 c.790 §42; 1991 c.228 §1; 1995 c.423 §19; 1999 c.120 §1]

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1998–2015 · leading case: State Ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Washington, 47 P.3d 537 (Or. Ct. App. 2002).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
State Ex Rel. Gonzalez v. Washington, 47 P.3d 537 (Or. Ct. App. 2002). · cites it 2× “3 Under ORS 144.340, 4 a person who had violated the conditions of parole could be “retaken and returned” to a correctional facility for the purpose of conducting a parole violation hearing under ORS 144.”
Beveridge v. Johnson, 967 P.2d 1238 (Or. Ct. App. 1998). “331; ORS 144.340, and there is no allegation here that plaintiff had done so.”
State v. Patterson, 346 P.3d 614 (Or. Ct. App. 2015). · cites it 2× “331 and ORS 144.340. ORS 144.340 addresses the authority of the Department of Corrections to take custody of persons “whenever they have violated” the terms of PPS.”
State v. Nall, 117 Wash. App. 647 (Wash. Ct. App. 2003). “Or. Rev. Stat. § 144.340 (2)(b). The Oregon legislature has defined “Local Supervisory Authority” as the “state or local corrections agency or official designated .”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.