BEND, OR — Deschutes County Commissioners will discuss Wednesday whether to purchase Bend property to house Parole and Probation clients.
Community Justice Director Deevy Holcomb tells KBND News the facility on Southeast Wilson, set to open next month on the 10th, would allow shelter for about 50 parolees.
“I think it’s going to probably be double than what we had initially anticipated, which also means we’re going to be serving hopefully a wider range of people on supervision for different types of crimes or different offenses or with different kinds of conditions that they have to meet,” Holcomb says, adding the housing will help about 50 convicts meet the conditions of their parole or probation, “I’d say about 10% of the supervised-population in Deschutes County is homeless. And then there are different types of homelessness, different levels and different lengths…
