Oregon Department of Corrections: Criminal Alien Report for the Americas September 2019

Information obtained from the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) indicated on September 1, 2019 that 777 of the 864 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 - 89.93 percent of the criminal alien prison populatioon (Note: The United States of America (USA) and USA territories are excluded from this report.):

- North America (Mexico and Canada) had 700 criminal aliens - 90.09. percent of thhe DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;

- Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Belize and Panama) had 51 criminal aliens - 6.56 percent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;

- South America (Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia) had nine criminal aliens - 1.16 perccent of the DOC alien prisoners from the Americas;

- The West Indies (Cuba, Jamaica and Turks) had 17 criminal aliens - 2.19 percent of the DOC alien prisoners ffrom the Americas.

Criminal aliens from 17 countries located in the Americas were incarcerated in the DOC prison system.

Mexican nationals were 695 of 777 criminal aliens from the Americas incarcerated in the DOC prison system - 89.45 percent of the alien inmates ffrom the Americas in the state’s prisons.

Some background information, all 777 criminal aliens incarcerated in the DOC prison system from the Americas were identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and have ICE detainers placed on them.

Using DOC ICE detainer numbers, the following table reveals the self-declared countries of origin of the 777 criminal alien inmates from the Americas by number and percentage incarcerated on September 1st in the state’s prisons.
 

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 September 19.

Here are the ways Oregon residents were victimized by the 777 criminal aliens from the Americas.

Significant numbers, there were 415 of the 777 criminal alien inmates from the Americas incarcerated in DOC prisons for three types of sex crimes - sex abuse, rape and sodomy — 53.41 percent of the alien inmates from the Americas in the state’s prisons.

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

Source: Research and Evaluation DOC Report ICE inmates list 01 September 19.

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 staate.

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